Little Falls History

Central Pennsylvania was never known as to have been the permanent settlement for any large group of Native Americans. It was more of a stop for traveling tribes or a place of refuge. The Cherokees once passed through here in the early 17th century (Wallace, 1970). The Susquehannock Indians were an Iroquois Indian tribe that settled the Susquehanna watershed before they migrated to Maryland, near the Chesapeake Bay (Cadzow, 1936). The tribe that stayed the longest and had the most influence on Central Pennsylvania was the Shawnee. The Shawnees were an Algonkian people whose original home was most likely the Cumberland River in Tennessee. This southern position gave them the name Shawnee, meaning "southerners" in the Algonkian language. The Shawnees split up often and moved around a lot, they are noted to have lived in parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Their first known appearance in Pennsylvania in great numbers was in 1697 (Harvey, 1855). The tribe had five main groups: Chillicothe, Kispokotha, Pique, Sawekela, and the Makostrake (Johnson, 1937). These became so intermixed that they are now indistinguishable. The reasons for these groups were mainly for political and ritual purposes and did not affect

Long before the Western countries discovered North America, the Native Americans lived and thrived here. Historians believe these wandering peoples crossed over a land bridge that formed when the earth froze over, officially named Beringia, to get to North America. These nomadic Natives began spreading and forming different tribes around North America. One of the many tribes was the Ais Indians of Florida. By themselves, the tribes reigned the New World, but contact with the Westerns began their tragic demise.

On May 14th, 1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark start their three year expedition across the Louisiana Purchase. They started in Camp River Dubois, east of the Mississippi river. They sailed all the way up the Missouri river. When the Great Falls came up, they had to get out of the boat and split up. William Clark and four dozen other men went on the

The canal that links the waters of Lake Erie to the west of the Hudson River in the east, is the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal is an example of Henry Clay’s vision to harmonize and balance the country’s agriculture, economy and industries. The building of this canal was first proposed in 1808 and was eventually completed in 1824. At the time, New York State Governor De Witt Clinton envisioned a canal that would link Albany to Buffalo. The idea was criticized by some and given the name “Clinton’s ditch”. The idea turned out to be a critical turning point for the country since it opened up many new possibilities.

The Nez-Perce Indians got their new name that we call them today due to the French seeing the Indians with pierced noses and call them Nez-Perce meaning "pierced nose" and the name stuck.

One of the most important Native American groups in North American history is the Iroquois. The Iroquois Indians have been estimated to have been around as early as 900 ad. They lived in what are called long houses. The long houses were built in rows of one or two. They could be up to 200 feet long and 20 feet wide. These homes accommodated 5 to 20 families. They had a central hole in the center of the house that was used for a fire that all of the families used. The houses were covered in elm bark on the outside. The villages were for the most part permanent. They only moved villages when they needed to. A reason for moving the village would have been if they had used up all of the fertile land. The Iroquois moved about every 20 years. The Iroquois lived in what is today upstate New York and parts of Canada along the ST. Lawrence River Valley. The Iroquois were once one strong nation. In the mid 1500’s the Europeans started moving into the St. Lawrence River Valley, and the Nation was split up. It was split into five Nations. The Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, and the Cayuga. Each Nation was free to peruse their own interests. In 1570 the League of Iroquois Nation was formed.

During 1957, integration of the Little Rock Nine students into Central High School was one of the most important events in history of that time period. Integration of high school made the town go out of control with high emotions in little rock. During the 1950s the mediums used their cameras and video tapes to influence important roles the had accesses. These various mediums served to illuminate the important events surrounding the Little Rock Nine, as well as, at times, provide an inaccurate or incomplete picture of events.

Wicomico County’s name comes from the Native American words meaning “place where houses are built”. The original boundaries of Somerset County were split in 1742 when Worcester County was formed. These boundaries were split again in 1867 which then formed Wicomico County. According to Shari Handley, labeled in her website “Wicomico County Maryland”, The USGENWEB Project, “today, Wicomico County is a booming area with the big city atmosphere, sleepy farming areas, quiet country villages, quaint fishing towns, and seemingly untouched villages.” A total of 102,370 people were living in this county in 2015. Wicomico county has 8 big towns/cities.

William Paterson of New Jersey presented a different plan. The New Jersey Plan was designed to revise the Articles of Confederation rather than form a new government. It kept the Confederation’s one-house legislature with one vote per state. This would preserve equality between large and small states. The plan, however, gave Congress the power to tax and regulate trade. Congress would elect a weak executive branch.

In 1792, Kentucky was made the first state west of the Appalachian mountains. It was founded by the paleo-Indians, Archaic, Woodland, Adena, Mississippian, and Fort Ancient cultures. But, there was no Indian possession of land at that time. Also, Kentucky was officially added to the union on, January 29, 1861.

The Little Rock Nine were nine African Americans who went to the all white Central High school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The school opened in 1927 and was originally called Little Rock Senior High School. The African Americans enrolled in September in 1957. The Little Rock Nine were Ernest Green, born in 1941, Elizabeth Eckford, born in 1941, Jefferson Thomas, born and died 1942- 2010, Terrence Roberts, born 1941, Gloria Ray Karlmark, born 1942, Melba Pattillo Beals, born 1941, Thelma Mothershed, born 1940, Carlotta Walls, born 1942, and Minnijean Brown, born 1941.

When we first arrived, it was in December of 1606. We had reached Chesapeake Bay in April of 1607.Eventually we built a settlement and called it Jamestown. There were native americans living there, at first they provided food for us settlers, but other times natives killed settlers that strayed too far from the fort, and it lead to our fort being attacked,

When Columbus first set foot in the New World, he believed that he had arrived in the islands just off the coast of Cipango, known today as China. Thinking this, he called the people that he met Indians, as they lived on the islands that he falsely believed were the Indies. The term Indian spread back to Europe, as did the term Indies, and to this day, Native Americans are known as Indians, and the Caribbean islands are referred to as the West Indies. The Indians populated a much greater area than Columbus could have imagined, covering the land of two Continents. The Native people of these lands, known already by a term in their languages that roughly meant "the people", were now thrown into one large group called Indians, which stretched

The coal seams ran under the higher ground to the north. The Duke's land agent, John Gilbert, saw that it was possible to connect the canal directly to the mines by way of an underground canal. This in turn could be used to help with draining the mines, providing a source of water for the canal.” Canals changed the way we collected goods, and they made it much more facile to transport them.

Love Canal is one of the most iconic and appalling environmental tragedies in American history. Dreamed up by a visionary, William T. Love built Love Canal to create a dream community on the fringe of Niagara Falls where all could see it as a dream community. Love built the Canal because he thought that by digging a short canal between two rivers that he could generate electricity to power homes and business in the community surrounding the canal. With the invention of AC power and a depression, the canals power systems were never installed and it remained as a dry canal for quite some time. It’s ironic that it had such grand intentions considering the Love Canal would become one of Americas most polluted superfund sites in American history.