The Construction Of The Patoka Reservoir

Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Illinois Prairie, a monograph written by John Mack Faragher discusses the life of settlers in Sugar Creek a town of Sagaman county, Illinois. Faragher argues the discoveries of the environment, society, culture, and economy in Sugar Creek throughout the nineteenth century and the changes, development, improvements with it. There are four common themes throughout the monograph: First, the kicking out of the Kickapoo and other Indians in place of Anglo-Americans. Second, the relationship and changes between men and women’s roles throughout the nineteenth century. Third, the community life and the sensibility of bringing the town together. Finally, the transition of agriculture and the innovations that changed the town. Faragher uses many censuses, charts, and records to get an idea of the transition of life in Sugar Creek and the affects it had on the community. Although Faragher presents many arguments he does not entirely discuss the men’s involvement in contrast to women’s roles in the household and town.

To this day, many paths that these roads followed are still being used, which proves that a lot of time and effort were put into these roads to achieve such a high quality and durability.

“The dam and reservoir required the purchase of about 22,000 acres of land” 1-1 . This is the number that lies at the heart of a wound and a controversy that is deeply rooted in Eastern Tennessee. While the number is large and significant, it is not the amount of land that was lost to the Tellico Dam project that caused the people of that area such grief. Rather, it was the meaning of the land that once intertwined irreplaceable history, livelihoods, sport and the like of a community for centuries. At a time in the nation's history where just the pitch for job growth and intercommunication between urban and countryside peaked the interest of hurting rural communities, TVA was met with harsh opposition from

In chapter 1, Visions of Progress reveals this vision of well known governor DeWitt Clinton who plans to build the Erie Canal both had representation of growing commitment in the North to the culture of improvement” (pg.25). Individuals the Sheriff identify as

Samuel Armstrong was neither really concerned with the Civil War until his graduation at Williams College. Samuel Armstrong enlisted into the Union army along with his schoolmates near Troy, New York. One of his most known classmates was James A. Garfield, and he enlisted into the army as well. Armstrong started to realize that there is hope for slavery to end as a result of the civil war.

Edward Good enlisted in the Union Army on 14 July 1862 in Clarksville, Indiana as a Corporal in Company “I” in the seventy-fifth regiment of Indiana volunteers. By the end of November 1862, he was dead in hospital at Louisville, Kentucky of pneumonia.

J.E.B Stuart graduated from West Point in 1854, and was assigned to a U.S. Army regiment in Texas, and soon after was transferred to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He was involved in the “Bleeding Kansas” affair, “…a period of intense violence between pro- and anti-slavery groups along the Missouri-Kansas border” (history.com). Stuart also was involved in U.S. army engagements against Indian tribes. “In 1859, Stuart served under Robert E. Lee during the U.S. military action that captured John Brown” (history.com), but in 1861, Virginia seceded from the Union and Stuart with them.

With the start of the Civil War, Rutherford Hayes left a life of leisure to accept a commission as a major in the 23rd Ohio Infantry. Hayes enjoyed the rugged military life and fought bravely, receiving four wounds in action during his service.

As the 1870s progressed the Vankoughnetts and kin formed a hardy and tight knit community surrounding Otter Lake. Slowly the land was cleared and the farms started looking like farms and the young township started taking shape. There were two events however, that would significantly affect how the future would unravel for all the

The true testament of a man is found in his resiliency. It is found in his enterprising spirit; his dogged resolve to overcome in the face of adversity. My grandfather, Richard E. Robinson Sr., exemplified this maxim. Young Richard was born in 1932 and raised on a farm in rural Black Horse, Maryland. There he lived with his parents, three sisters, and five brothers. Henry S. Robinson worked the fields as a sharecropper. As a little boy, Henry yearned for higher education. He desired to read books that would arouse his mind and awaken his soul. Unfortunately, Henry spent most of his days working in the fields. He grew up in an environment that valued labor over education. In turn, manual labor left Henry without an education past the sixth-grade.

The following film is inspired by the legends and the facts surrounding the life of Jonathan Hardin, an early pioneer of the Arkansas Territory, who settled near the crossroads of the Springfield-DesArc and Clinton-Little Rock roads where he built a two-story oak hewn log house which served as an Inn and Tavern during an age of outlaws and cattle rustlers but legend also suggests that prior to his death on December 16, 1869, at the age of 69, Hardin not only buried the family gold but may have also buried a few weary travelers who sought a place to lay their head for the night.

The small Wyoming town of Lander is where I grew up the first 9 years of my life. A quiet town with not much to do, a main street that consists of less than a half mile of stores. On the back roads of the town about 6 blocks from the main street and our usual destination is where we would set out from our home nesseled in the back streets of one of 3 elementary

The lingering memory of certain individuals is not as a result of them being special, rather, a function of the light they have shone or the darkness they have wrought while they are yet living. As Adolf Hitler, Bloody Mary and the likes can never be forgotten for the evil they wrought; so also will Mary Slessor, Albert Einstein etc., not be forgotten for the good they have done. Furthermore, there are certain individuals, though not recognized by the wide world, but are celebrated by the lives they have affected and such is Henry B. Plant – who was described by the Atlanta constitution as a remarkable human being, an innovator, who “masters all conditions and creates environment (Davis). Moreover, he is a man of foresight and this attribute

First,’’there are also the endless treks to the laundromat for the family wash and the supermarket for drinking water, not to mention the horror of the nightly dishes’’ (Source 2). Officials say at least 1,300 people have lost their water in and around East Porterville, nearly three hours’ drive north of Los Angeles, making the town’s residents some of the hardest hit victims of the three-year-old drought’’ (Source 2).California adjusts the law that they don’t have enough money and not enough people to build the well.

Prairie Creek Reservoir, located in an agricultural water in east-central Indiana, serves as a secondary drinking water supply for Muncie, IN and offers various recreational activities. Monitoring of the streams and knowledge of its water quality is very limited. This study assessed water quality at five major tributaries and outfall to support future management decisions.