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| South America & Caribbean:Juan Manuel de Rosas, governor of Buenos Aires assumes dictatorship over 12 provinces. | |||||||||||
| North America:Seminoles under Osceola begin guerilla warefare in defiance of the 1832 treaty. General Thomas S. Jessup leads U. S. forces. St. Petersburg Florida begins settlement under Odet Philippe, once a surgeon for Napoleon. The New York Herald begins publication. Over 1,000 miles of railroad in the U. S. Alexis de Tocqueville, commissioned to study the U. S. penitentiary system in 1831, uses notes from visits to New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia and other areas to publish Democracy in America. Edgar Allan Poe, William Gilmore Simms. Phineas Taylor Barnum. A great fire in New York takes 675 buildings. |
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| Europe: Passenger railroads open in Europe. Salicylic acid is synthesized as a pain reliever. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Painting by J.M.W. Turner, Constable; opera by Bellini, Donizetti; Frederic Chopin | |||||||||||
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February 1835
February 2 Edward Douglas White becomes Governor of Louisiana. |
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July 1835
On July 1, 1835. Caddo Indians ceded about 1,000,000 acres to the U.S. for $80,000 at the Caddo Agency House, By this treaty the Indians also gave to Larkin Edwards, interpreter and friend, a tract of land that later became the site of Shreveport. |
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Donelson Caffery born in Franklin, La. He will be a soldier of the Confederacy; lawyer and sugar planter of St. Mary Parish, member of the United States Senate (1892-1901). The Native American movement, viciously bigoted at first, protected the rights of native born Louisianians such as Creoles and later turned to hatred of anything not traditional Anglo-American and Protestant. The movement helped divide New Orleans into three municipalities in 1836 and poisoned ethnic relationships. Fear of slave insurrection and supposed plotting of subversive abolitionists leads to more restrictive state strictures on racial matters suppressing robust and creative free black population. |
The financial boom during these years (1835-1836) is unparalleled in Louisiana. Making their appearance this year: two new railroads, the St. Charles Hotel, the St. Louis Hotel, and gas street lighting . Six new banks are chartered. The flood of new currency issued by these banks causes inflation. |
Economic supremacy in New Orleans passes to the growing American population. Englishman James Caldwell’s St. Charles Theater opens near Poydras. It is the largest in the nation and helps New Orleans emerge as a cultural center. The New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad Company begins operation taking passengers along St. Charles Ave. past the city limits at Felicity St. into Jefferson Parish to the town of Carrollton. The Carrollton Line was chartered and laid out in 1833. The investors in the NO&CRR also were speculators in the subdivision of Carrollton. It is the oldest continuously operated street railway line in the world. The first St. Charles Hotel built on St. Charles Ave. between Common and Gravier. The six story building designed by James Gallier, Sr. cost $600,000 with interiors costing another $150,000. The Old Mint Building, Decatur St. at Esplanade Ave., is built in New Orleans. The wrought iron fence was built by Daniel Dana, a black iron smith whose shop was on Julia St. In 1835 most of the area around Bayou St. John is still too swampy for development and is called back of town. The Firemen’s Charitable Association is incorporated on March 4, 1835 as a benevolent society by members of the volunteer companies. |
The Arsenal, erected circa 1835 as a powder magazine for a U.S. Army Post in the Baton Rouge area from 1810-1885, except in 1861-1862 when held by the Confederacy. It is the oldest building on the LSU campus and was used as an agronomy building. In 1962 this building was restored and a museum established. The True American becomes the first newspaper in Louisiana to follow local news and politics on its pages. Previous publications had mostly clipped items from other national and international publications since most local news was generally known before it can be put into print. Methodist services in Vernon Parish began in 1826. The Grove Methodist Church was organized in 1835 by Reverend James Ford, one of the circuit riders who served it. |
A religious colony, Germantown, is founded near Minden, La. by followers of Count Leon, who came from Germany to operate a communal village which thrives until 1871. The Caddo Indians agree to sell the U. S. Government around 1 million acres for $80,000 adding to the area of Natchitoches County. The tribe is relocated with the Choctaw in Texas. |
Lands End Plantation, established in 1835 by Colonel Henry Marshall (1805-1864) and his wife Maria Taylor Marshall (1807-1855). The plantation house is built in 1857 and will be used as a hospital for the Battle of Mansfield in 1864. Marshall was first elected to the legislature in 1844. This signer of the Louisiana Ordinance of Secession and Confederate Constitution will also be a Member of the Confederate Congress. The plantation burned in 1989. Rosedown Plantation, between Baton Rouge and St. Francisville, is built by wealthy planter Daniel Turnbull George Catlin renown for his paintings of Native Americans is in New Orleans with an exhibition of his work. James Brown Pierre Clement de Laussat |
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