The Farm Colony: The Whistle Island Farm Colony

In 1896, François Camille Viguerie donated land for the building of a new Sacred Heart Church, and the family sold land for the Montegut School in 1912. François' sons, Albert Robert (A.R.) and Arthur Camille (A.C) operated Point Farm beginning in 1896. That year, François suffered a heart attack on board a train near Kansas City, while en route to Colorado with his daughter, Emma, and died in Kansas City, Kansas on May 15. Emma, suffering from consumption died in December of the same year. A.C. became manager of the plantation store, which survived many more years on the left bank of Bayou Terrebonne near Sacred Heart Church (1113 Highway 55) in Montegut. The 1897 Terrebonne Parish Directory recorded that Point Farm consisted of 450 acres

Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American community in California 1919-1982 by Valerie J. Matsumoto presents a close and in-depth study of social and culture history of Cortez, a small agricultural settlement located in San Joaquin valley in California. Divided into six chapter, the book is based primarily on the oral interviews responses from eighty three members of Issei, Nisei, and Sansei generations. However, many information are also obtained from the local newspapers, community records, and World War II concentration camp publications.

Prince Edwards Island in 1867 was a small colony, It had an estimated population of over 90 000 residents. Originally Prince Edwards Island only wanted to join a union of just the maritime colonies, but then a contingent of Canada showed up and convince everyone of their BNA act. At the time, Prince Edwards Island was still not convince but they agree to meet at a later date to discuss it further.

Between the late 1800s and mid-1900s, to help procure land, supplies, and workers, farmers turned to sharecropping. In mostly all instances of sharecropping the croppers would get a percentage of the crops they worked while the rest would go to the landowner. In most situations the croppers got a smaller percentage than the landowners. In this certain contract between a landowner and the Grimes family in North Carolina, there were some unfair condition. One of the unfair conditions was the results of not feeding his team. The cropper was required to feed his team every day in the morning, noon, and night, and if he didn’t he must pay the landowner five cents. The workers were also required to repair the fence if it was blown over or broken

In the mid 1800 there was a boom in sudar crops. It was hard for the Hawaiians to make sugar alone, so they took immigrants from other countries to help the Hawaiians but there was many struggles to in this years of boom.Plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800 was difficult. Living conditions in Hawaii were severely poor, working conditions were painful, and racism was treated unfairly.

Farmers did well after the Civil War and into the 1880s with plentiful rainfall and easy credit from banks. In the 1890s, however, American farmers suffered from drought, poor harvests, restrictive tariff and fiscal policies, low commodity prices, and competition from abroad. A downward swing in the business cycle exacerbated their plight, and many farmers in the Plains filed for

The Old Mule Farms is a cow-calf operation that provides calves for feedlots to fatten up before being sent to packing houses and eventually sold as meet for consumers. The current owners have been experiencing a problem with losses in revenue. The expenses that Old Mule Farms incurred are veterinary bills, labor, nutritional supplements and minerals, and a variety of forage. The forage is primarily grazed grasses but is supplemented with hay.

Kaweah Colony began in 1884 when a group of San Francisco labor organizers, inspired by socialist writings, set out to form their own utopian colony. They chose a site on North Fork of the Kaweah River in hopes of developing a lumber industry to support the colony in the vast timberland above Three Rivers. [At it’s height, the colony had around (150) members on site and up to a thousand who paid dues with the hopes of joining them one day.] To begin their industry, the colony needed a road to transport lumber out of the mountains, and over four years, they constructed an 18-mile road using only pick axes and shovels.

On July 22, 1587, long before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, 117 hopeful colonists from England landed ashore onto a tiny island along the coast of what is today North Carolina. The group unpacked and founded a settlement, Roanoke Island. Then they vanished without a trace.

In 1874 Arkansas developed a new state constitution and thus ended reconstruction. At that time, democrats gained control over the state in an attempt to “redeem” Arkansas and restore white supremacy. The cultural heritage of the South stayed the same, but a lot of changes were beginning to take place in the economy of the “New South”. The economy of Arkansas was almost always exclusively agricultural, but in the New South agriculture was changing and new sources of economy were emerging; leading to shifts in politics as well.

Throughout the colonies, the environment was a key factor that played a huge role in their society. The environment was a stepping stone that helped shaped the colonies and provided many opportunities for them. While the social, political, and economic factors were important to US History, the environment had an impact on the colonies because of the Grass Revolution, Jamestown, and the Columbian Exchange.

The European conquest for establishing North American colonies began with various motivations, each dependent on different, and/or merging necessities: economics, the desire to flee negative societal aspects, and the search for religious freedoms. Originally discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 in search for a trade route to Cathay (China), North America remained uninhabited, excluding the Native American establishments. Following this discovery, Spain –along with other European nations such as France, England, Sweden and the Netherlands– soon began the expedition to the new land with vast expectations. Driven by economic, societal, and religious purposes, the New World developed into a diversely structured colonial establishment

Leaning back in his rocker with his bare feet propped on the railing, Joshua smoked his first cigarette of the day. Fat, bushy-tailed squirrels running around the trees and swinging off the moss-laden limbs had held his attention for the past fifteen minutes; he welcomed distraction. Watching the squirrels had kept his thoughts at bay, which was good. He especially needed a break from thinking of the events of the last several days.

Most plantation workers faced backbreaking work and discrimination because of their Asian heritage, but things were different for the largest group of European immigrants. The Portuguese were the largest group of European immigrants to ever move to Hawaii. They played a major role in developing Hawaii into what it is today. Many Portuguese farmers and families came to Hawaii due to a fungus blight that was plaguing the crops and creating an economic depression for farmers in Portugal. The Portuguese had many push factor that brought them to Hawaii, they were also treated differently from all the other immigrant groups that worked the plantation as well, and they had many cultural impacts on Hawaii that still influence it today.

Between 1492-1776, although many people moved to the “New World”, North America lost population due to the amount of Indians dying from war and diseases and the inability of colonists to replace them. John Murrin states, “losers far outnumbered winners” in “ a tragedy of such huge proportions that no one’s imagination can easily encompass it all.” This thought of a decreasing population broadens one’s perspective of history from that of an excluded American tale full of positivity to that of a more unbiased, all-encompassing analysis. The Indians and slaves have recently been noted as a more crucial part of history than previously accredited with.