Gazetteer/Almanac
America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink
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Trenton, New Jersey (Hayward)
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America.... (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 598.
Trenton, N. J. City, capital of the state, and seat of justice of Mercer co. 29 miles N. E. from Philadelphia, and 57 miles S. W. from New York. Population in 1810, 3003; in 1820, 3942; 1830, 3925; 1840, 4035; 1850, 6766.
The Year 1858
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"Hot Weather," Charleston (SC) Mercury, July 2, 1858
Notes
Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Russell Toris, Dickinson College, June 10, 2008.
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Original caption
Hot Weather
Source citation
"Hot Weather," Charleston (SC) Mercury, July 2, 1858, p. 2: 3.
Source note
Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.
New Hampshire (Hayward)
Gazetteer/Almanac
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America.... (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 100-103.
"The first law passed by New Hampshire, after it became a province, was enacted in 1693, amid the terrors and distresses of the sanguinary war with the Indians and the French, and shows how regardful of education the people at that time were.