La Belle Shipwreck

“Land Ho”! In the year of, 117 colonists arrive at the shore of, nowadays, North Carolina (Drye Willie, 2004). On the ship the ship is a pregnant women also known as Eleanor Dare, daughter of John White, and the mother of Virginia Dare; the first English born American child. The Roanoke colony is one of the first American mysteries that no one has yet solved. There are a lot of theories regarding this tragedy. Some say that they drowned, and others say that they merged with the Indians living near by the colonists. Based upon research, the theory that appeared the most logical was that the Indians murdered the colonists. Not only because it’s one of the well-known theories, but also because it seemed probable.

Every year, thousands of people cross the Macarthur bridge onto a beautiful island known as Belle Isle. Here is a place where someone can discover all 4 seasons, view some aquatic life at the Belle Isle aquarium, or just take in the breathtaking views of the skylines of Detroit and Windsor, created as a place where Detroiters can relax and play, to be able to release all of their stress and trouble. Belle Isle with such a rich history and majestic architecture, made this island a beautiful piece of art and the true gem of Detroit.

Archaeology is a continuously evolving field where there is a constant stream of new branches and excavation methods. Due to the influx of new technologies and innovations in recent decades, archaeologists have been able to excavate previously inaccessible areas. For example, new diving equipment and tools such as proton magnetometers, side-scan sonar, sub-bottom profiler, and miniature submarines have allowed archaeologists to dive into the deep depths of the ocean. As a result, the branch of underwater archaeology was created to search for shipwrecks and other artifacts on the ocean floor. Underwater archaeology’s role has increased in recent years as it allows archaeologists to more accurately interpret the past by supplementing

The Native Americans lost many people during the war. It happen during ‘Black Hawk War’, when Chief Black Hawk led two groups, the Sac and the Fox Indians, back to their home in Illinois because they “found their western country unacceptable…” (356). However, the Illinois militia drove the Indians into Wisconsin and

In 1841, that myth was shatter when a group of sixty-nine people moving towards California and Oregon entered into Lakota lands and passed through unscathed. Once word arrived back east of the their success, people started to jump on wagon trains and venture west for land and prosperity. During the time period from 1841-1848 the Lakota never bothered any of the settlers passing through, even though they were carving roads over the grasslands and killing buffalo in the area. 3 The discovery of gold in California changed all of that. Starting in 1848, the stream of settlers “became a raging river” and in 1850 nearly fifty-five thousand people crossed through Lakota lands via the Overland Trail. 4 The Lakota did nothing even though increasing numbers of settlers along with their cattle were starting to decimate the prairie grasslands as they passed through on their way westward. The final issue that led the Lakota to push the settlers out of their lands was that of disease. The Native Americans had never been exposed to Asian cholera, smallpox, and the measles. European settlers brought these with them as they traveled west and infected Lakota causing many of them to experience horrible fevers and suffering before dying without any way of being helped. 5 The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 guaranteed sovereignty to the Lakota as long as they allowed settlers to pass through on the Oregon Trail unharmed.6 At this point, the Lakota had enough and decided to take

Leading up to the massacre, the Lakota’s land had continually been seized by the United States government. They had already been almost wiped out by European settlers, even though they were once large and covered the Great Plains. There was a great deal of unrest in

The 291-foot-long L.R. Doty was carrying a cargo of corn when it sank during a ferocious storm on Oct. 25, 1898. It vanished for almost 112 years, the steamship rested in ghostly silence at the bottom of Lake Michigan, unknown and unseen until a group of divers kicked their way down to the deck and solved a perplexing maritime mystery. The deckhouses were gone, the smokestack was tipped over and a wheelbarrow used to move cargo lay on the boat's

In this regard, in 1803, the United States of America entered an agreement with Napoleon Bonaparte to purchase Louisiana Territory in order to gain access to Mississippi (Davis, 318). This decision created the ground for the further exploration of the region in this dimension by the Americans (Davis, 318). Moreover, the use of ships was an inevitable feature of the American society in the first half of the nineteenth century (Davis, 319). Ships provided society with the link and connection between producers, customers and immigrants, as well as their places of origin (Davis, 319). The amount of people from European region that had moved to United States of America; in order to improve their financial condition and obtain political freedom was overwhelming (Davis, 317).

In fact, the Expedition had been so momentous in American History in that not only does the Expedition ultimately realize the aforementioned colonial dream to find a route to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific , but the overall magnitude of the expedition’s significance ultimately puts the Louisiana Purchase as well as other accomplishments of Jeffersonian presidency, into perspective. Thus, by further exploring the revolutionary context of the Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1803, in addition to analyzing the central figures of the Expedition, we can better observe the profound impact the Corps of Discovery has brought upon to better define the American national

This exhibit highlights artifacts found in the wreck of the Spanish Carrack cargo ship, the San Esteban, which ran aground near neighboring Padre Island in the spring of 1554. These objects include the stern section of the keel with part of the sternpost, wrought-iron anchors, cannons, ammunition, tools, ship’s fittings and fastenings, and silver coin and bullion. The exhibit also features the world’s oldest date-confirmed mariner’s astrolabe –

The mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke is a puzzling mystery about what happened to the first English settlers in America. The question is, what actually happened to them, because even with evidence and research no one knows for absolute certain what actually did happen. The disappearance of an entire colony, who left behind a dismantled settlement and the word "Croatoan" etched into a tree has stumped many archaeologists. Countless theories have arisen, some more outrageous than the rest. Were they killed by Indians? Taken by aliens? Abducted? Sabotaged? The mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke has an abundance of theories, but the most plausible is that the colonist were assimilated into the Lumbee tribe.

No one will blame you if Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald floats through your mind as you explore the 16,000-square-foot Dossin Great Lakes Museum. After all, the museum was built to share the tales of the Great Lakes and Detroit's unique role in maritime history. The fate of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975 is just one of the many stories

In 1673 French officials heard a rumor that their was an undiscovered great river that ran to the Pacific. Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette were commissioned to explore the area and claim the land as French territory. On May 17, 1673, the two explores headed off. The two traveled in a canoe along Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

On the way to the west coast they met many native americans but none were as fierce as the lakota sioux. When the Corp of Discovery reached their territory they were greeted by the warriors who they tried to be friendly with. The corp offered beads and little gifts to the group of sioux who demanded more but the corp had a limited amount of supplies so the sioux got angry and tried to stop them. Eventually the event came to a close and our heroes got to pass

Forty-six years later, May 8, 1991, a computer-controlled submarine scanned the ocean floor for sunken galleons. On this day, the crew of the Deep Sea would be unsuccessful in their search for galleons. Instead, 750 feet below the surface of the ocean, they would discover the outline of an