DOCSLIB.ORG

HISTORICAL 50CIETY MONTGOMERY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA J\Ronmstowj^

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
HISTORICAL 50CIETY MONTGOMERY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA J\Ronmstowj^ BULLETIN jo/'fAe. HISTORICAL 50CIETY MONTGOMERY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA J\rONmSTOWJ^ PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY AT ITS BUILDING 165^ DEKALB STREET NORRISTOWN.PA. SPRING, 1961 VOLUME XII NUMBEiR 4 PRICE $1.50 The Historical Society of Montgomery County OFFICERS Hon. David E. Groshens, President George K, Brecht, Esq., Vice-President Hon. Alfred L. Taxis, Jr., Vice-President Dr. Edward F. Corson, Vice-president Eva G. Recording Secretary Mrs. EArl W. Johnson, Corresponding Secretary Mrs. LeRoy Burris, Financial Secretary and Librarian Lyman a. Kratz, Treasurer TRUSTEES Kirke Bryan, Esq. Robert C. Bucher Harry L. Christman Mrs. H. H. Prancine Donald H. Gallager, Esq. Herbert H. Ganser Hon. David E. Groshens Kenneth H. Hallman Nancy P. Highley Arthur H. Jenkins Hon. Harold G. Knight Lyman A. Kratz William S. Pettit Robert R. Titus Mrs. F. B. Wildman, Jr. ^rotlatnation iHontgomerp Countp Bap Cliurfiibap, September 10, 1959 abnt^ampry CHamily t^aa rffbrtp^i Iiynamic obDottrfmrutB in itbuQtry, gonprnntfitl. Ijpalllf, romnwrre. trotiBpnrtaliim ani commmiicatiotiB imrlity tijc Depplopmritl of our Station, onft ^itlgomfri{ (Sounly ijaa ropr rncouroyffi oplf-rrltaorp atiti foBtrrrli fmdotn of opportunity for its mrn aib momrn. onb l^fl^rcaSS our ritiEpna tan tohr pribr in liontooinpry County 0 uoBt rrBourcra. i;rr orraotility anb manifolb attainmrnta in inbustry, {;ralll; anb Ijrr omaziny biorrsity of proburtB, anb ^fjercaSi it tuoo on tlbntyomrry County anil tl;at tt;? forrra of Crnrrol Croryr ffiaaljinyton aiitljatoob tljfir moat arorrr trat in tijr SJation'a aucrraaful fiyljl for frrrbom, anb iSontyomrry County muat look to tljr futurr, focr ararrljiny for nrni rnbraoors ntl;trk totU ntron continurb gronitl; anb proaprrtty. anb IgPljereagtiip orraaion ariara to oppropriotrly obarror our kfnlayr anb itnprraa upontljemorib Iliatit rail! lit prratrorb in tinrirlftb form for gentrationa to romr. J^OtD '^\^tXtUstt, S9t, 9. Molttr ^ottttnonba. Slarrtn iB. Corntll. 3Ir. anb ^Torrrat 21. ^tnry. tlft Commiaaiontra of iKonlgomtry County, bo ijtrffay btaiguatt otb prorlatm Clptrabay. ^tpftmbtr 10.1959 aa fflontgomtry County Say to rommmoratt tl;t irstt; Anniorraary of tl;t founbtng of IQontgomrry County. ®t tall upon our ritiztna to atizt upon tlfia opportunity to aryuaint tijtataclora mort fully tnitif tljt rraourrta. btorlopment. Ijiatory anbpoltntidiltra oftbtir County, anb oak ^at tijt ottaaion bt tnorktb by appropriatt txtrriata in ^t arboola anb by buaintaa. rioir. religioua, potriolir anb frottrnal organizotiona mitbin Montgomtry Comity. Ciotn unbtr our Ijani' tljf gttal atal of ^ntgomtry County, ^tmiayloania. at tljt Sorougb of SJorriatomn. tlfia imtnty-fiftlf bay of Auguat in tlft ytor of our Diorb ont tlfouaanb nint ifmtbrtb anb fifty-ninr. OJnmmlBfltattKfl of . -f fSanl^oinrrg (Doun^ Proclamation of Montgomery County Day by the Montgomery County Commissioners, September 10, 1959. THE BULLETIN of the Historical Society of Montgomery County PUBLISHED SEMI-ANNUALLY — SPRING AND FALL Volume XII SPRING, 1961 Number 4 CONTENTS Montgomery County History, Edward W. Hocker, continued Chapter XXVII —Popular Diversions, continued 220 XXVIII—Funeral of General Hancock 223 XXIX —The Gwynedd Ghost 225 XXX —Convention System in Politics 227 XXXI —The Trolley Car Era 231 XXXII —^War and Disasters 287 XXXIII—New Ideas in Welfare Work 239 XXXIV—The Twentieth Century 241 XXXV —The County's Seventh Quarter Century 257 Organization of Townships and Boroughs 270 Bibliography 272 In Memoriam, Charles R. Barker 274 Reports 275 PUBLICATION COMMITTEE Mrs. LeRoy Burris Mrs. Earl W. Johnson Charles R. Barker, Chmrman^ *Decea8ed 217 Montgomery County History Edwaed W. Hooker (Continued from, page 209) Growth of Interest in Sports burse members for losses if the stolen horse was not recovered. Popular Interest in sports, The Mount Joy Horse Company, which attained such an amazing organized In Upper Merlon town scope In the present century, be ship in 1774; the Unloii Society, came evident in the later decades a similar organization in lower of the nineteenth century, princi Montgomery county, begun in pally the medium of baseball. 1812: the Montgomery Union Prior to that time horse-racing Horse Company, founded in Gwy- was almost the only sport that nedd In 1827' the Farmers' Union attracted much attention. Par Horse Company, of Pairvlew VU- back In 1753 Christopher Sower's large, dating from 1830: the Cen German newspaper reported that, ter Square Association, establish although the government had for ed in 1819, and numerous others bidden the racing of horses for were active for many years, some money, yet such racing was con of them for a century, continu tinued on "Manatawny street, ing as social organizations In the near the Widow L<ette - above irotor car age. Trappe." At one of these races, so the paper told, a German spec In the first half of the nine tator, named Veltan Heiszer. In teenth century there were race trying to avoid the horses racing courses at Pairvlew Village and on the road, was knocked down Broad Axe, and In the later years by one of them and fatally in of the century such tracks existed jured. The name of the horse's for horse races at Sklppack, Penn rider was given as "Dschlmi Square, on the farm of Charles Leen," which was the editor's Nolan, near Center Square; at the German orthography of "Jimmy fair grounds In Norris^own, Lane," suggesting that member of Sprlngtown and Ambler; at A. H. the Lane family, who were early Moore's Cloverdell Stock Farm, settlers near where Collegeville Colmar, and at Erdenhelm Stock now Is, were addicted to horse Farm, In Whltemarsh. while the racing. most famous of all race tracks in the county was the Belmont The horse was one of the most course, near Narberth. valuable possessions of the first settlers. The theft of a horse The Erdenhelm Farm, owned meant a serious loss. Owners of by Aristldes Welch from 1861 horses formed associations to until 1882, and by Commodore himt thieves who stole horses be Norman W. Kittson from 1182 longing to members and to reim until 1888, was widely known for 219 220 BULLETIN OP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY the noted horses bred there. Flora volved being void. The offer of a Temple, "queen of the trotting purse, said Judge Ross, constituted track." and Leamington twice the gambling. Therefore there could winner of the Chestei cup in be no recovery of what was vir England, were at Erdenheim for tually a gambling debt. many years, and their graves are A baseball club was organized L*arked there with large stone in Norristown in 1859. Games s abs. Other famous horses of were played on Wednesdays and that time that had their home Saturdays. John Roberts was at Erdenheim were Lady Thorn, president of the club; William S. sold by Welch in 1870 for $31,000, Potts, vice president; B. P. Van then a record-breaking price for court secretary, and Jacob Brooks, a horse: Maggie B. 8. Iroquois, treasurer. A large assemblage of Rysdyk stratmore. Sants Claus, spectators witnessed a game be PHnce James. Omar and Kasim. tween the Norristown Club and Many noted men were Mr. the University Club, of Philadel Welch's guests at Erdenheim, phia, on Thanksgiving Day. 1860, among them ' President Grant, when Norristown won, 18 to 6. August Belmont, William Astor The Norristown players were: J. and Pierre Lorrllard. P. Brooks, second base; E. M. The Belmont track was con Snyder, center field: David structed at the time of the Cen Beaver, left field; J. B. Beaver, tennial of 1876. Bud Ooble was right field; P. Molony, first base; a famous trainer there. Nearly Israel Hart, shortstop; B. Molony, all the great trotters of the later third base; George Schall, pitch nineteenth century '•an in Bel er. and Daniel Jacobus, catcher. mont races—Maud S Maxey Norristown's first professional Cobb. Joe Patchen, John R. baseball club came into existence Gentry. Nancy Hanks. Sweet in 1888. It was supported by a Marie and many others. group of the town's business men In a case in the Montgomery who adopted the name of Norris County courts in 1879, Judge town Baseball and Athletic Asso Henry P. Ross declared horse ciation, the officers being: Presi racing to be illegal The Mont dent. J. Roberts Rambo; vice gomery County Agricultural So presidents, J Morton Brown, Wil ciety. whose annual fairs were liam P. Dannehower and Louis held in AmblPi sued J W. Hille- Well; treasurer, Eugene D. Egbert, gass. because his check which he and secretary John A. Brown- gave to the society went to pro back. A ball park was fitted up test, Hillegass had entered a horse at Powell and Pornance streets, 1] one of the races at the society's and the nine was entered in the fair, paying an entrance fee of Inter-State League. Games were ter per cent of the amount of played for two seasons, but lack the pmse offered in the race Pay of financial success caused the ment was made by check, and project to be abandoned. when the amount coul'^ not be Before the time of the Civil collected the society brought suit. War Norristown had two barge In his opinion Judge Ross said clubs — the Atlantis and the horse racing was lawful by com Ariadne. Both had houses on the mon law. but a state law of 1820 banks of the Schuylkill, above classed it as a common ni.isance, Swede street. The barges were horses taking part in races being handsome boats thirty-two feet forfeited and wage claims in long, each equipped with six oars MONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORY by EDWARD W. HOOKER 221 and seating twenty persons. In Of course, ice skating was a these barges the members would winter sport from earliest times. take their friends of both sexes Immediately after the Civil War on river outings in the evening, skating parks were established in climaxing the voyage with a visit many towns.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • When Fear Is Substituted for Reason: European and Western Government Policies Regarding National Security 1789-1919
    WHEN FEAR IS SUBSTITUTED FOR REASON: EUROPEAN AND WESTERN GOVERNMENT POLICIES REGARDING NATIONAL SECURITY 1789-1919 Norma Lisa Flores A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY December 2012 Committee: Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle, Advisor Dr. Mark Simon Graduate Faculty Representative Dr. Michael Brooks Dr. Geoff Howes Dr. Michael Jakobson © 2012 Norma Lisa Flores All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle, Advisor Although the twentieth century is perceived as the era of international wars and revolutions, the basis of these proceedings are actually rooted in the events of the nineteenth century. When anything that challenged the authority of the state – concepts based on enlightenment, immigration, or socialism – were deemed to be a threat to the status quo and immediately eliminated by way of legal restrictions. Once the façade of the Old World was completely severed following the Great War, nations in Europe and throughout the West started to revive various nineteenth century laws in an attempt to suppress the outbreak of radicalism that preceded the 1919 revolutions. What this dissertation offers is an extended understanding of how nineteenth century government policies toward radicalism fostered an environment of increased national security during Germany’s 1919 Spartacist Uprising and the 1919/1920 Palmer Raids in the United States. Using the French Revolution as a starting point, this study allows the reader the opportunity to put events like the 1848 revolutions, the rise of the First and Second Internationals, political fallouts, nineteenth century imperialism, nativism, Social Darwinism, and movements for self-government into a broader historical context.
    [Show full text]
  • United States Department of the Interior National Park Service
    NPS Form 10*00* OMB Approval No. 101+0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Owned Highway Bridges Section number 7 Page 1 Bridges included in Pennsylvania Historic Highway Bridges Thematic Group Stone Arch Bridges S-l Pondtown Mill Bridge Unknown L.R. 01009, Adams County S-2 Bridge in Jefferson Borough 1901 L.R. 02085, Allegheny County S-3 Bridge in Shaler Township 1915 L.R. 02349, Allegheny County S-4 "S" Bridge 1919 L.R. 06024, Berks County S-5 Bridge in Albany Township 1841 L.R. 06172, Berks County S-6 Bridge in Yardley Borough 1889 L.R. 09023, Bucks County S-7 Newtown Creek Bridge 1796 L.R. 09042, Bucks County Listed on the National Register as part of the Newtown Historic District (Boundary Increase: Sycamore Street Extension) on February 25, 1986 S-8 Bridge in Buckingham Township 1905 L.R. 09049, Bucks County S-9 Bridge in Solebury Township 1854 L.R. 09066, Bucks County Listed on the National Register as part of the Carversville Historic District on December 13, 1978. S-10 Lilly Bridge 1832 L.R. 276, Cambria County S-ll Bridge in Cassandra Borough 1832 L.R. 276, Cambria County S-12 Lenape Bridge 1911-1912 L.R. 134, Chester County S-13 County Bridge #101 1918 L.R. 173, Chester County S-l5 Bridge in Tredyffrin Township Unknown L.R. 544, Chester County NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 (342) Expires 10-31-87 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Owned Highway Bridges Continuation sheet Item number Page 2 S-16 Marshall's Bridge 1903 L.R.
    [Show full text]
  • 44 WINTER 2018 K KEENELAND.COM Caption For
    STALLION POWER Caption for photo goes here 44 WINTER 2018 K KEENELAND.COM STALLION POWER For nearly four decades Lane’s End Farm has set the standard as one of the world’s major stallion operations BY MARYJEAN WALL PHOTOS BY DAVID COYLE KEENELAND.COM K WINTER 2018 45 n 1866 an English horse named Leamington stood at stud for one season only in Woodford County, on land known in modern times as Lane’s End Farm. Leam- ington accomplished a lot in that single year — com- mencing a stallion narrative that continues more than a century Ilater for William Stamps Farish III, founder of Lane’s End. The land was called Bosque Bonita when Confederate Brigadier General Abraham Buford returned home from the Civil War. Buford had greater success with Leamington than he did fighting to save Paducah, Kentucky, from falling to the United States. Buford, a sharp horseman who had built his own racetrack on Bosque Bo- nita, saw opportunity in Leamington. The horse had failed at stud in England, but this was Ken- tucky, ruined economically in the war. Few stal- lions remained after outlaws and armies from both sides had emptied nearly every horse barn in the state. Buford offered a stall to Leamington (he did not own him) and sent word to anyone who had managed to hang on to at least some mares. Leamington got down to work. In that one year he sired the inaugural Kentucky Derby winner, Aristides. He also sired that pride of Kentucky and most popular racehorse of the 1870s, Long- Founded by Will Farish, right, Lane’s End continues to thrive in the second generation, with Bill Farish, left, serving as second in command.
    [Show full text]
  • Rise and Fall of Lexington's Sire Line
    June 3, 2006 Rise and fall of Lexington’s sire line by Rommy Faversham No bell will toll. No pronouncements offered. But, at some point, perhaps, in the next few years - if not indeed already - the legendary male line of Lexington will reach unconditional extinction, as the last of its painfully obscure male representatives takes his final breath. This once greatest of all American sire lines did not end with a bang but the most prolonged of whimpers, amassing well over a century of decay and failure. The male line of Lexington was initiated by the importation of his aging paternal great-great grandsire, *Diomed. Winner of the inaugural running of the Epsom Derby in 1780, the enigmatic Diomed was ultimately deemed a failure at stud in England and dispatched to Virginia in 1798. In his definitive text, Racing in America 1665-1865, esteemed Turf historian John Hervey wrote, “the success of [Diomed’s American] get was so immediate, so sweeping, as to blot out all precedent. He was in no long time regarded as the greatest progenitor yet seen”. In explaining this revolutionary shift in Thoroughbred bloodlines, Hervey noted, “the Diomeds exceeded in size and power any previous American family”. Described as a strong 15.3 hands, Diomed often produced offspring even larger than himself. Diomed’s best son, Sir Archy (1805) has been described as America’s first great runner and remains the oldest member of Racing’s Hall of Fame. Sir Archy’s phenomenal career at stud would ultimately earn him the soubriquet of “Godolphin Arabian of America”, which sought to epitomize his influence as well as underscore the saturation of his blood in subsequent generations.
    [Show full text]
  • Thoroughbred
    A Publication of the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association PAThoroughbred pabred.com May 2017 pabred.com Issue 38 REPORT Blast From the Past: Moving Fast and Accurate Down the Derby Trail When asked about the naysayers who believe that it is “crazy” to supplement Fast and Accurate to the Kentucky Derby, part-owner Harvey Diamond Page 5 Classic declared, “They’re correct!” performances Harold, Saunterer, Montaque, Bryn Mawr, WynOaks Farm: Layminster and Smarty Jones – what do these names have in common? A Full-Service Facility Chip and Barbara Wheeler Page 19 have been involved in the breeding and racing industry for nearly 30 years. They believe in delivering the highest degree of personal 2017 PA-Bred service while focusing on attention to detail at the full- Stakes Schedule service facility in Delta. Page 7 PAGE 17 PA-breds honored at Parx Horsemen’s Awards It was a great night for Pennsylvania-breds as they took home seven of the nine awards in the horse A Letter from Executive categories, including Disco Chick as Horse of the Year, Secretary Brian Sanfratello at the 2016 Parx Horsemen’s Awards in Bensalem. Page 13 Page 10 The Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association presents $250,000 Bonus to a PA-Sired, PA-Bred ($200,000 - owner, $50,000 - breeder) Who Wins the 2017 Pennsylvania Derby $100,000 for 2nd and 3rd place ($75,000 - owner, $25,000 breeder) Photo: Nikki Sherman, PTHA Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association • www.pabred.com 701 East Baltimore Pike, Suite E, Kennett Square, PA 19348 • 610.444.1050 2016 Iroquois Award Finalists Please join us at our Annual Awards Banquet on June 9, 2017, 5 p.m.
    [Show full text]
  • Endurance by Right by Kathleen Jones
    Endurance By Right by Kathleen Jones Endurance By Right was a bay filly born in 1899 from the sire Inspector B. and the imported dam Early Morn, by Silvester. Her name implied the anticipated stamina and ruggedness one would expect from such a pedigree as this. The filly did not disappoint her breeders. She was sired by Belmont and Travers winner INSPECTOR B., who was a son of leading sire ENQUIRER, who also sired Travers winner and Kentucky Derby runner-up Falsetto. Broodmare sire SILVESTER was a son of ST. ALBANS - winner of the English St. Leger (1 mile 6 1/2 furlongs) and the Great Metropolitan Stakes (2 1/4 miles). Second dam LATE NIGHTS was sired by CREMORNE who won the Grand Prix de Paris, a race of nearly two miles. Cremorne was also winner of the Epsom Derby and was runner-up in the English 2000 Guineas. Fifth dam, BROWN BESS was the grand-dam of MUSKET, winner of the Ascot Stakes and Alexandra Plate over "extreme distances". Musket stood a few years in England before exporting to New Zealand where he sired the magnificent racers TRENTON and CARBINE. The latter was particularly well-known for his feats of carrying great weight while setting time records. The famed handicapper and critic Walter S. Vosburgh wrote in his historical volume "Racing in America: 1866-1921" the following: "If ability to concede great weight and a beating to contemporaries is the measure of pre-eminence, Endurance By Right is the greatest two-year-old filly that has appeared within the past fifty years." Before she migrated to Saratoga in 1901, the filly had started at mid-western meetings in nine races, winning eight, including the Clipsetta Stakes at Latonia, and the Lassie Stakes, Petite Stakes, and Lakeside Stakes at Chicago.
    [Show full text]
  • Open Space Plan Collegeville Borough Collegeville Montgomery County,Montgomery Pennsylvania 2006 Collegeville Borough Officials Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
    COLLEGEVILLE BOROUGH OPEN SPACE PLAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 2006 COLLEGEVILLE BOROUGH OFFICIALS MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 491 E. Main Street Collegeville, PA 19426 610 489-9208 BOROUGH COUNCIL MEMBERS Chuck Draksler, President Teresa Stagliano, Vice-President Stewart Goetz Rowan Keenan Timothy Mahon Arnold Mann Louise Tulio MAYOR Albert Stagliano OPEN SPACE COMMITTEE Carin Davis Mary Lynn Gaydos Rowan Keenan Linda Korenkiewicz Timothy Mahon Heather Vernon Geoff Thompson, Borough Manager Nathan Walker, County Liaison Perkiomen Greenway - First Avenue, Cover Background Hunsberger Woods, Cover Foreground COLLEGEVILLE OPEN SPACE PLAN 2006 Prepared by the Montgomery County Planning Commission under funding through the Montgomery County Green Fields/Green Towns Program COLLEGEVILLE OPEN SPACE PLAN TABLE OF CONTENTS vii Borough Resolution CHAPTER 1 COMMUNITY PROFILE 1 Historical Background 2 Regional Setting 4 Existing Land Use Analysis 8 Community Demographic Analysis CHAPTER 2 GOALS & OBJECTIVES 15 1995 Open Space & Environmental Resource Plan 17 2006 Open Space Plan CHAPTER 3 EXISTING PROTECTED LAND 20 Public Open Space 22 Private Open Space 22 Discussion CHAPTER 4 INVENTORY OF POTENTIALLY VULNERABLE RESOURCES 23 Historic & Cultural Resources 26 Geology 27 Soils 28 Topography 29 Surface Waters & Hydrology 30 Vegetation & Wildlife iii COLLEGEVILLE OPEN SPACE PLAN CHAPTER 5 POTENTIAL OPEN SPACE LINKAGES 33 Benefits of Greenways 34 Collegeville Connections 36 Regional Trail Network CHAPTER 6 ANALYSIS OF UNPROTECTED RESOURCES 41
    [Show full text]
  • Ridge Pike, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County
    JULY 2013 Ridge Pike Lower Providence Township MONTGOMERY COUNTY JULY 2013 Ridge Pike Lower Providence Township MONTGOMERY COUNTY RI NY CT The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission is dedicated to uniting the New York City region’s elected officials, planning professionals, and the public with a common PA BUCKS MERCER vision of making a great region even greater. Shaping the way we live, work, MONTGOMERY CHESTER PHILADELPHIA NJ DELAWARE BURLINGTON and play, DVRPC builds consensus on improving transportation, promoting CAMDEN GLOUCESTER Wilmington smart growth, protecting the environment, and enhancing the economy. MD Baltimore We serve a diverse region of nine counties: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, DE MD Montgomery, and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; and Burlington, Camden, Washington, D.C. Gloucester, and Mercer in New Jersey. DVRPC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization for the VA Greater Philadelphia Region — leading the way to a better future. The symbol in our logo is adapted from the official DVRPC seal and is designed as a stylized image of the Delaware Valley. The outer ring symbolizes the region as a whole while the diagonal bar signifies the Delaware River. The two adjoining crescents represent the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey. DVRPC is funded by a variety of funding sources including federal grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA), the Pennsylvania and New Jersey departments of transportation, as well as by DVRPC’s state and local member governments. The authors, however, are solely responsible for the findings and conclusions herein, which may not represent the official views or policies of the funding agencies.
    [Show full text]
  • Tennessees Greatest Stud Belle Meade
    TENNESSEE'S GREATEST STUD--BELLE MEADE WILLIAM RIDLEY WILLS, II With all the political, social, and economic ties between Ken- tucky and Tennessee• it seems normal that Belle Meade, Tennes- see's greatest stud farm, had close Kentucky connections. The Belle Meade Plantation began in 1807 when John Harding bought 250 acres of land and an old station located six miles southwest of Nashville on the Natchez Road. This trail, which had long been used by the Indians, was a route for boatmen, mail carriers, preachers, soldiers, and settlers traveling between Tennessee and Kentucky on the north and Natchez on the south. Harding was one of those tough farmers who periodically took slaves and produce on flatboats down the rivers to Natchez and New Orleans. The Belle Meade Stud dates to 1816 when the imported stal- lion Boaster stood at John Harding's. By the end of the decade such prominent Tennesseans as Sam Houston and Felix Grundy were boarding horses and ponies there. Grundy had moved to Nashville a few years earlier from Kentucky, where he had been chief justice of the state's supreme court. During the 1820s imp. [imported] Eagle, imp. Bagdad, and Sir Archy, Jr., stood at Harding's stable. 1 In the 1830s Harding's interests turned to cotton plantations in Louisiana and Arkansas. Accordingly, near the end of the decade he turned responsibility for managing Belle Meade over to his thirty-two-year-old son, William Giles Harding. The young- er Harding, who was already a brigadier general in the Tennes- WILLIAM RIDLEY WILLS, B.A., has served as president of the Tennessee Historical Society and is currently a trustee of Vanderbilt University.
    [Show full text]
  • DESICCATED COCOANUT Sisted of Examination Papers Bound in Sets, Have Also Heard of Their Being Taken in That Worded and Well SEED STORE
    THE BANK STREET SCHOOL. CATCHING SHAD WITH A FLY. For Hie W. J. Pioneer. Callender’s Minstrels.—Callender's A REPLY TO AN ANONYMOUS, PER original Georgia Minstrels opened a week’s The exercises of the Grammar Anderson, one of the fish at Ford’s House last She closing Comptroller SONAL LETTER. engagement Opera pioneer. Department, Bank St. School, took place Commissioners, writes to the Trenton Ga- uigbt and met with a warm reception. The No will be oj an is NOIX of DE COCO gentleman guilty writing anony troupe composed exclusively colored mill FFICIAL PAPER OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY on last. A number of visi zette as follows: Friday morniug mous, personal letter. men and member is an artist. The every with our tors were The exercises were “The fact that shad will take the fly, as We have opened In connection present. sentiment has so been of. course, with the Published every Thursday morning, at No. 6C This long held, and s< entertainment, opens oral in a this bast Commerce Street, Cup stairs.) highly entertaining, and consisted of noted paragraph copied by you strenuously Insisted upon, by the best authority minstrel show proper. Chas. B. Hicks is IS THE BEST no men. Their examinations iu Reading, History, Mental morning from the New York Sun, is by on good breeding, as that it has become crystalizec the interlocutor, with six end This paper is eutered at the PostOfflce at are at once fresh and Bridge- iu all of which the means a recent They have been into, and everywhere received by good society, ai jokes numerous, good.
    [Show full text]
  • National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Brookdale Farm Historic District Monmouth County, NJ Section Number 7 Page 1
    NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the information requested. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. ` historic name Brookdale Farm Historic District other names/site number Thompson Park 2. Location street & number 805 Newman Springs Road not for publication city or town Middletown Township vicinity state New Jersey code NJ county Monmouth code 025 zip code 07738 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I certify that this nomination request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant nationally statewide locally. See continuation sheet for additional comments.
    [Show full text]
  • Muybridge, the Galloping Horse and Revealed Errors in Art
    International Journal of Art and Art History June 2018, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 15-26 ISSN: 2374-2321 (Print), 2374-233X (Online) Copyright © The Author(s).All Rights Reserved. Published by American Research Institute for Policy Development DOI: 10.15640/ijaah.v6n1p2 URL: https://doi.org/10.15640/ijaah.v6n1p2 Muybridge, the Galloping Horse and revealed Errors in Art Pangratios Papacosta1 Ph.D., "The horse. Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing servant, yet never a slave."Ronald Duncan “When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.” William Shakespeare, Henry V. Introduction The horse has been an intimate part of human history, going back even before the use of writing, found in prehistoric cave paintings that are more than 35,000 years old. The horse has been a symbol of power, nobility and grace. After their domestication around 3,000 BC horses were ridden to battle, used in transportation and hunting, they ploughed fields, raced for trophies and were displayed on royal arms. They were prized for their speed or their pulling power. The scientific term horsepower (hp) is based on the ability of a draft horse to pull up a certain weight to a specific height in one second. Horses in pairs ploughed the fields and when placed in front of a box with wheels, horses went to battle, ran in competitive races or transported heavy loads.
    [Show full text]