1823                 Documents in Year 1824                     1825


Links of Interest:

  • James Monroe, Fifth U.S. President

  • (1817-1825)

  • French General La Fayette visited America

    General La Fayette from France "landed in New York in June 1824 upon the invitation of the President and was received in every part of the Country with the warmest expressions of delight and enthusiasm. He was proclaimed by the popular voice the guest of the Nation and his presence every whare was the  signal for festivals and rejoicing. He passed through the 24 States of the Union" via stagecoach.  "In Kentucky there was nothing but mud roads... (He visited Lexington, KY in May 1825)... Taking leave of four ex Presidents of the United States, he received the farewell of the President, in the name of the nation and saild from the Capital on a Frigate named the Brandywine Sept. the 7, 1825."
    Source: “Bluegrass Craftsman.” Edited by Frances L.S. Dugan and Jacqueline P. Bull, Google Books, University of Kentucky Press, 1959, books.google.com

  • Fur Trade

  • Mr. Henry, the first American who trapped upon the head-waters of the Columbia river in 1808, and General Ashley of Missouri "established a post on the banks of the Yellowstone River in 1822" and pushed a band of trappers across the Rocky Mountains by 1823. "In 1825 a footing was secured, and a complete system of trapping (was) organized beyond the mountains"  (Irving 30).  Source: Irving, Washington. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville. G.P. Putnam and Son, New York, 1868. Originally published in 1837.

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