Stuart, Florida | House of Refuge | Hutchinson Island
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Stuart is a city in, and the seat of, Martin County, Florida, United States. Located on Florida's Treasure Coast, Stuart is the largest of four incorporated municipalities in Martin County.
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House of Refuge on Hutchinson Island, Stuart, Florida
As the mullet run, the Pelicans are feasting! Pelicans feeding at House of Refuge on Hutchinson Island, Stuart, FL
MacArthur Boulevard Stuart Florida - Hutchinson Island
MacArthur Boulevard is a small two-lane road located on Hutchinson Island in Stuart Florida. Stuart is one of South Florida’s most desirable coastal areas. This little road features both beautiful beaches and beautiful beach homes. If you enjoy a Sunday drive I would put MacArthur Blvd. on your list of things to do.
MacArthur Blvd. is a short road and dead ends at the entrance of Sailfish Point, I personally never get tired of traveling on it even though I have traveled this road at least a hundred times. You have one way in and one way out, if you want to go back to the mainland you need to turn around at Bathtub Reef Beach. The speed limit is 25 MPH and for good reason, as the road does a great deal of winding around and you are in a residential area filled with homes.
As you travel down the road you have the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Indian River on the other. In some places the road is so narrow you can see the ocean and river at the same time and this can make for a very interesting drive, so keep your eyes on the road.
If you enjoy the beach you will certainly love Bathtub Reef Beach which is one of Stuarts main attractions. This beach is unique, due in part to a reef system just off shore. The reef is home to more than 500 sea creatures and the reef also acts as a barrier from large waves. At low tide the waves cannot get over the reef and this forms a tub like pool in between the reef and shoreline, thus it was named Bathtub Beach.
There are 4 beaches on this stretch of Hutchinson Island and all are open to the public. The second beach I mentioned in my video is Ross Witham Beach and its located right in front of the House of Refuge Museum. Ross Witham Beach has lots of rock formations, so you have a limited ability to get into the water but it has a great deal of beauty. What I love about this beach is watching the waves hit the rocks and listening to them crash. It can be dramatic at times and provides both visual and acoustic enjoyment.
And while your checking out this beach you might as well check out the house of Refuge Museum. If you enjoy learning about Florida’s history, you can step back in time to the turn of the century. The Houses of Refuge was designated as safe havens for shipwrecked sailors and travelers along the sparsely populated Atlantic coastline of Florida. The museum is loaded with artifacts and photographs of days long past. The House of Refuge is one of Martin County’s oldest building and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974 and this museum is certainly something not to miss.
Whether you want to take a break and find a tranquil place on the beach to spend your day or maybe your looking for a home with one of the best views in Florida, taking a drive along MacArthur Boulevard may just be the ticket. I can promise you won’t be disappointed.
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Best Attractions and Places to See in Stuart, Florida FL
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List of Best Things to do in Stuart, Florida (FL)
Indian Riverside Park
Riverwalk
Florida Oceanographic Coastal Center
Elliott Museum
The House of Refuge Museum
Bathtub Reef Beach
Halpatiokee Regional Park
Sandsprit Park
Stuart Beach
Stuart Heritage Museum
Fleming Grant MICCO Fl ACREAGE
MUST SEE VIDEO TOUR - Aerials capture proximity to water.
BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME on 2.2 Acre lot, quick drive to Indian River, public boat ramps, easy access to Inlet to Ocean. Great fishing, boating, and surfing at Sebastian Inlet. If you like space, privacy and nature, this is a great property for you! Fleming Grant Rd in Micco, just north of Sebastian. Hydroponic Farm located next door to property.
LOCATION - quick drive to Micco shopping. Short drive to Sebastian's grocery stores, shopping, and fine dining. Enjoy Sebastian's wonderful restaurant row along Florida’s famed Indian River/ Intracoastal waterway, parks, river, beaches, public boat ramps and the Sebastian INLET. Approximately a 25 minute drive to Vero Beach -- enjoy fine dining, shopping, performing arts, museum, art galleries, movies, boutiques, Indian River Mall and Vero Beach Outlet Mall, plus much more. Or drive to Melbourne for shopping and dining.
ECOLOGICALLY: The Indian River is rich in plants and wildlife. Additionally there is the important Indian River Lagoon. The Lagoon has more species of plants and animals than any other estuary in North America, including over 2,200 animal species and over 2,100 plant species. Since it is located where the temperate and tropical zones overlap and located within the Indian River Lagoon at the confluence of freshwater and saltwater sources, the refuge is uniquely situated to support a wide variety of resident and migratory species. And is one of the most biologically diverse estuaries in the continental United States.
HOSPITAL - Additionally, short drive to Sebastian Medical Center and access to many doctors.
Drive on over and see this lovely property and its proximity to river, inlet to ocean, and all the fun that comes with water.
Bathtub Beach, Stuart, Florida
This was my childhood backyard. Thank you Mom and Dad for the best backyard ever. Because of you I love wildlife, and nature. It is where I find God. I love you so much!
Best Attractions & Things to do in Fort Pierce, Florida FL
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Navy Seal Museum
Jetty Park
Al's Family Farms
Fort Pierce Inlet State Park
Sunrise Theatre
St. Lucie County Aquarium - Smithsonian Marine Ecosystems Exhibit
Pepper Park Beach
St. Lucie County Historical Museum
Blind Creek Beach
Downtown Fort Pierce
Black Women Who Changed America, Frisco Museum Lecture Series
The Winter Lecture Series at the Frisco Historic Park and Museum presents Jill Tietjen with her talk on Black Women Who Changed America.
Stolen Paintings Returned to Government of Peru - San Antonio, TX
Four separate investigations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) led to the seizure of several looted Peruvian artifacts smuggled into the United States during the last several years. The artifacts were returned to the Peruvian Consuls during simultaneous repatriation ceremonies in San Antonio, Denver and Boston.
Two paintings of St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Anthony Abbot were returned Oct. 22 by HSI San Antonio. They were stolen from the Maria Magdalena Church in Taray, Peru, in October 2001. The paintings were ripped from the upper-left and upper-right niches of the principal altar of the church. Both were retouched and reframed for sale and auction in the United States. The Peruvian Consul in Houston accepted the paintings at a ceremony at the San Antonio Museum of Art, hosted by HSI San Antonio Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala.
15ft Giant Alligator Spotted In Florida
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A GIANT alligator, thought to be one of the largest on record, has been caught on camera by stunned onlookers at a Florida beach.
The beast was filmed emerging out of the wetlands, leaving eyewitnesses lost for words.
Footage shows the 15ft long reptile dwarfing a normal sized gator as they sit on the banks of the water.
Marcy Clarius was out for a weekly walk when she spotted the monster gator climbing out of wetlands in Boynton Beach, Florida, USA, on March 23.
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Fort George G. Meade
Fort George G. Meade is a United States Army installation that includes the Defense Information School, the Defense Media Activity, the United States Army Field Band, and the headquarters of United States Cyber Command, the National Security Agency, the Defense Courier Service, and Defense Information Systems Agency headquarters. It is named for George G. Meade, a general from the U.S. Civil War, who served as commander of the Army of the Potomac. The fort's smaller census-designated place includes support facilities such as schools, housing, and the offices of the Military Intelligence Civilian Excepted Career Program.
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Loyalist (American Revolution) | Wikipedia audio article
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Loyalist (American Revolution)
00:02:23 1 Background
00:03:11 2 Motives for Loyalism
00:05:03 3 Loyalism and military operations
00:07:28 3.1 Numbers of Loyalists
00:10:49 3.2 Slavery and Black Loyalists
00:13:51 3.3 Loyalist women
00:14:51 3.4 Loyalism in Canada
00:18:17 3.5 Military service
00:19:26 4 Emigration from the United States
00:26:16 5 Return of some expatriates
00:29:16 6 Impact of the departure of Loyalist leaders
00:31:15 7 Loyalists in art
00:32:05 8 Loyalists in literature
00:32:57 9 Notable Loyalists
00:33:07 9.1 A
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Loyalists were American colonists who stayed loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often called Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time. They were opposed by the Patriots, who supported the revolution, and called them persons inimical to the liberties of America. Prominent Loyalists repeatedly assured the British government that many thousands of them would spring to arms and fight for the crown. The British government acted in expectation of that, especially in the southern campaigns in 1780-81. In practice, the number of Loyalists in military service was far lower than expected since Britain could not effectively protect them except in those areas where Britain had military control. The British were often suspicious of them, not knowing whom they could fully trust in such a conflicted situation; they were often looked down upon. Patriots watched suspected Loyalists very closely and would not tolerate any organized Loyalist opposition. Many outspoken or militarily active Loyalists were forced to flee, especially to their stronghold of New York City. William Franklin, the royal governor of New Jersey and son of Patriot leader Benjamin Franklin, became the leader of the Loyalists after his release from a Patriot prison in 1778. He worked to build Loyalist military units to fight in the war, but the number of volunteers was much fewer than London expected.
When their cause was defeated, about 15 percent of the Loyalists (65,000–70,000 people) fled to other parts of the British Empire, to Britain itself, or to British North America (now Canada). The southern Loyalists moved mostly to Florida, which had remained loyal to the Crown, and to British Caribbean possessions, often bringing along their slaves. Northern Loyalists largely migrated to Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. They called themselves United Empire Loyalists. Most were compensated with Canadian land or British cash distributed through formal claims procedures. Loyalists who left the US received £3 million or about 37 percent of their losses from the British government. Loyalists who stayed in the US were generally able to retain their property and become American citizens. Historians have estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the two million whites in the colonies in 1775 were Loyalists (300,000-400,000).
European colonization of the Americas | Wikipedia audio article
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The European colonization of the Americas describes the history of the settlement and establishment of control of the continents of the Americas by most of the naval powers of Western Europe.
Systematic European colonization began in 1492, when a Spanish expedition headed by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sailed west to find a new trade route to the Far East but inadvertently landed in what came to be known to Europeans as the New World. He ran aground on the northern part of Hispaniola on 5 December 1492, which the Taino people had inhabited since the 7th century; the site became the first permanent European settlement in the Americas. Western European conquest, large-scale exploration and colonization soon followed. Columbus's first two voyages (1492–93) reached the Bahamas and various Caribbean islands, including Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. In 1497, Italian explorer John Cabot, on behalf of England, landed on the North American coast, and a year later, Columbus's third voyage reached the South American coast. As the sponsor of Christopher Columbus's voyages, Spain was the first European power to settle and colonize the largest areas, from North America and the Caribbean to the southern tip of South America.
The Spaniards began building up their American empire in the Caribbean, using islands such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola as bases. The North and South American mainland fell to the conquistadors, with an estimated 8 million deaths of indigenous populations. Florida fell to Juan Ponce de León after 1513. From 1519 to 1521, Hernán Cortés waged a campaign against the Aztec Empire, ruled by Moctezuma II. The Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, became Mexico City, the chief city of what the Spanish were now calling New Spain. More than 240,000 Aztecs died during the siege of Tenochtitlan. Of these, 100,000 died in combat. Later, the areas that are today California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, and Alabama were taken over by other conquistadors, such as Hernando de Soto, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Farther to the south, Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire during the 1530s. The de Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. The expedition journeyed from Florida through present-day Georgia and the Carolinas, then west across the Mississippi and into Texas. De Soto fought his biggest battle at the walled town of Mabila in present-day Alabama on October 18, 1540. Spanish losses were 22 killed and 148 wounded. The Spaniards claimed that 2,500 Indians died. If true, Mabila was the bloodiest battle ever fought between red men and white in the present-day United States.Other powers such as France also founded colonies in the Americas: in eastern North America, a number of Caribbean islands and small coastal parts of South America. Portugal colonized Brazil, tried colonizing the eastern coasts of present-day Canada and settled for extended periods northwest (on the east bank) of the River Plate. The Age of Exploration was the beginning of territorial expansion for several European countries. Europe had been preoccupied with internal wars and was slowly recovering from the loss of population caused by the Black Death; thus the rapid rate at which it grew in wealth and power was unforeseeable in the early 15th century.Eventually, most of the Western Hemisphere came under the control of Western European governments, leading to changes to its landscape, population, and plant and animal life. In the 19th century over 50 million people left Western Europe for the Americas. The post-1492 era is known as the period of the Columbian Exchange, a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), ideas, and communicable disease ...
Andrew Jackson | Wikipedia audio article
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Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress. As president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the common man against a corrupt aristocracy and to preserve the Union.
Born in the colonial Carolinas to a Scotch-Irish family in the decade before the American Revolutionary War, Jackson became a frontier lawyer and married Rachel Donelson Robards. He served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate representing Tennessee. After resigning, he served as a justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1798 until 1804. Jackson purchased a property later known as The Hermitage, and became a wealthy, slaveowning planter. In 1801, he was appointed colonel of the Tennessee militia and was elected its commander the following year. He led troops during the Creek War of 1813–1814, winning the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The subsequent Treaty of Fort Jackson required the Creek surrender of vast lands in present-day Alabama and Georgia. In the concurrent war against the British, Jackson's victory in 1815 at the Battle of New Orleans made him a national hero. Jackson then led U.S. forces in the First Seminole War, which led to the annexation of Florida from Spain. Jackson briefly served as Florida's first territorial governor before returning to the Senate. He ran for president in 1824, winning a plurality of the popular and electoral vote. As no candidate won an electoral majority, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams in a contingent election. In reaction to the alleged corrupt bargain between Adams and Henry Clay and the ambitious agenda of President Adams, Jackson's supporters founded the Democratic Party.
Jackson ran again in 1828, defeating Adams in a landslide. Jackson faced the threat of secession by South Carolina over what opponents called the Tariff of Abominations. The crisis was defused when the tariff was amended, and Jackson threatened the use of military force if South Carolina attempted to secede. In Congress, Henry Clay led the effort to reauthorize the Second Bank of the United States. Jackson, regarding the Bank as a corrupt institution, vetoed the renewal of its charter. After a lengthy struggle, Jackson and his allies thoroughly dismantled the Bank. In 1835, Jackson became the only president to completely pay off the national debt, fulfilling a longtime goal. His presidency marked the beginning of the ascendancy of the party spoils system in American politics. In 1830, Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which forcibly relocated most members of the Native American tribes in the South to Indian Territory. In foreign affairs, Jackson's administration concluded a most favored nation treaty with Great Britain, settled claims of damages against France from the Napoleonic Wars, and recognized the Republic of Texas. In January 1835, he survived the first assassination attempt on a sitting president.
In his retirement, Jackson remained active in Democratic Party politics, supporting the presidencies of Martin Van Buren and James K. Polk. Though fearful of its effects on the slavery debate, Jackson advocated the annexation of Texas, which was accomplished shortly before his death. Jackson has been widely revered in the United States as an advocate for democracy and the common man. Many of his actions, such as those during the Bank War, proved divisive, garnering both fervent support and strong opposition from many in the country. His reputation has suffered since the 1970s, largely due to his role in Indian removal. Surveys of historians and scholars have ranked Jackson favorably among United States presidents.
President Carter: The White House Years
Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter’s side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White House, where he served as Chief Domestic Policy Advisor. Famous for the legal pads he took to every meeting, he draws on notes and interviews to write a comprehensive history of an underappreciated President—and to give an intimate view on how the Presidency works. A book signing will follow the program.
John Ruskin | Wikipedia audio article
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John Ruskin
00:02:23 1 Early life (1819–1846)
00:02:35 1.1 Genealogy
00:04:04 1.2 Childhood and education
00:05:47 1.3 Travel
00:07:39 1.4 First publications of Ruskin
00:08:55 1.5 Oxford
00:11:16 1.6 iModern Painters I/i (1843)
00:14:04 1.7 1845 tour and iModern Painters II/i (1846)
00:16:16 2 Middle life (1847–1869)
00:16:28 2.1 Marriage to Effie Gray
00:17:52 2.2 Architecture
00:18:49 2.3 iThe Stones of Venice/i
00:21:30 2.4 The Pre-Raphaelites
00:26:20 2.5 Ruskin and education
00:28:31 2.6 iModern Painters III/i and iIV/i
00:29:24 2.7 Public lecturer
00:31:08 2.8 Turner Bequest
00:32:18 2.9 Religious unconversion
00:33:22 2.10 Social critic and reformer: iUnto This Last/i
00:39:51 2.11 Lectures in the 1860s
00:41:44 3 Later life (1869–1900)
00:41:56 3.1 Oxford's first Slade Professor of Fine Art
00:45:16 3.2 iFors Clavigera/i and the Whistler libel case
00:46:52 3.3 The Guild of St George
00:50:10 3.4 Rose La Touche
00:52:00 3.5 Travel guides
00:53:19 3.6 Return to belief
00:54:18 3.7 Final writings
00:56:10 3.8 Brantwood
00:58:45 3.9 Personal appearance
00:59:51 4 Legacy
01:00:00 4.1 International
01:01:36 4.2 Art, architecture and literature
01:02:41 4.3 Craft and conservation
01:03:11 4.4 Society and education
01:05:00 4.5 Politics and economics
01:06:01 4.6 Ruskin in the 21st-century
01:08:58 5 Theory and criticism
01:10:17 5.1 Art and design criticism
01:16:46 5.2 Historic preservation
01:18:21 5.3 Social theory
01:20:22 6 Controversies
01:20:31 6.1 Turner's erotic drawings
01:21:13 6.2 Sexuality
01:25:49 6.3 Common law of business balance
01:28:02 7 Definitions
01:30:25 8 Fictional portrayals
01:34:49 9 Paintings
01:34:58 10 Select bibliography
01:35:32 10.1 Works by Ruskin
01:44:23 10.2 Selected diaries and letters
01:45:53 10.3 Selected editions of Ruskin still in print
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John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation.
The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art gave way in time to plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society.
He was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century and up to the First World War. After a period of relative decline, his reputation has steadily improved since the 1960s with the publication of numerous academic studies of his work. Today, his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism, sustainability and craft.
Ruskin first came to widespread attention with the first volume of Modern Painters (1843), an extended essay in defence of the work of J. M. W. Turner in which he argued that the principal role of the artist is truth to nature. From the 1850s, he championed the Pre-Raphaelites who were influenced by his ideas. His work increasingly focused on social and political issues. Unto This Last (1860, 1862) marked the shift in emphasis. In 1869, Ruskin became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing. In 1871, he began his monthly letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, published under the title Fors Clavigera (1871–1884). In the course of this complex and deeply personal work, he developed the principles underlying his ideal society. As a result, he founded the Guild ...
Timeline of Christian missions | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:12 1 Apostolic Age
00:01:57 2 Early Christianity
00:05:57 3 Era of the seven Ecumenical Councils
00:16:04 4 Middle Ages
00:19:07 5 1000 to 1499
00:27:30 6 1500 to 1600
00:44:58 7 1600 to 1699
01:03:37 8 1700 to 1799
01:26:16 9 1800 to 1849
01:42:16 10 1850 to 1899
01:59:20 11 1900 to 1949
02:11:58 12 1950 to 1999
02:24:01 13 2000 to present
02:26:46 14 Footnotes
02:26:55 15 See also
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This timeline of Christian missions chronicles the global expansion of Christianity through a listing of the most significant missionary outreach events.
Power and Distorted Relationships: The Psychology of the “Loyal Slave” and “Mammy” (Lecture)
In the final days of the America Civil War, previously isolated slave populations found the opportunity to run toward Union ships or infantry encampments. Likewise, as federal forces moved onto these plantations and publicly read the Emancipation Proclamation, newly freed slaves migrated in great numbers to the nearest city where the Freedman’s Bureau worked to reunite scattered families and provide various forms of social or economic support. Southern planters watched their slaves leave with dismay, having lived under the delusion that their “human property” saw them as patriarchs who provided daily protection from birth to death. Their “defections” stripped away any pretense of the master-slave relationship. Join Ranger Troy Harman and explore the shattered notions of the “loyal slave” and “Mammy” following the end of the war and the transformation of southern society.
History of the Jews in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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The history of the Jews in the United States has been part of the American national fabric since colonial times. Until the 1830s, the Jewish community of Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest in North America. In the late 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s, many Jewish immigrants left from various nations to enter the U.S. as part of the general rise of immigration movements. For example, many German Jews arrived in the middle of the 19th century, established clothing stores in towns across the country, formed Reform synagogues, and were active in banking in New York. Immigration of Eastern Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews, in 1880–1914, brought a large, poor, traditional element to New York City. They were Orthodox or Conservative in religion. They founded the Zionist movement in the United States, and were active supporters of the Socialist party and labor unions. Economically, they concentrated in the garment industry.
Refugees arrived from diaspora communities in Europe after World War II and, after 1970, from the Soviet Union. Politically, American Jews have been especially active as part of the liberal New Deal coalition of the Democratic Party since the 1930s, although recently there is a conservative Republican element among the Orthodox. They have displayed high education levels, and high rates of upward social mobility. The Jewish communities in small towns have dwindled, as the population concentrated in large metropolitan areas.
In the 1940s, Jews comprised 3.7% of the national population. Today, at about 6.5 million, the population is 2% of the national total—and shrinking as a result of smaller family sizes and interfaith marriages resulting in nonobservance. The largest population centers are the metropolitan areas of New York (2.1 million in 2000), Los Angeles (668,000), Miami (331,000), Philadelphia (285,000), Chicago (265,000) and Boston (254,000).
Maryland in the American Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Maryland in the American Civil War
00:04:19 1 The approach of War
00:04:29 1.1 Maryland's sympathies
00:07:01 1.2 Baltimore Riot of 1861
00:10:30 1.3 To secede or not to secede
00:12:07 1.4 Imposition of martial law
00:17:59 1.5 Flight to Virginia
00:20:09 1.6 A state divided
00:21:07 2 Civil War
00:21:16 2.1 Battle of Front Royal
00:23:02 2.2 Bloody Antietam
00:25:55 2.3 March to Gettysburg
00:26:56 2.4 Battle of Monocacy
00:27:49 3 Prisoners of war
00:29:09 4 Slavery and emancipation
00:30:19 4.1 Constitution of 1864, and the abolition of slavery
00:33:21 5 Assassination of President Lincoln
00:35:12 6 Legacy
00:37:06 7 See also
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During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Maryland, a slave state, was one of the border states, straddling the South and North. Because of its strategic location, bordering the national capital city of Washington D.C. with its District of Columbia since 1790, and the strong desire of the opposing factions within the state to sway public opinion towards their respective causes, Maryland played an important role in the American Civil War (1861-1865). Newly elected 16th President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, served 1861-1865), suspended the constitutional right of habeas corpus in Maryland; and he dismissed the U.S. Supreme Court's Ex parte Merryman decision concerning freeing John Merryman, a prominent Southern sympathizer from Baltimore County arrested by the military and held in Fort McHenry (then nicknamed Baltimore Bastille). The Chief Justice, but not in a decision with the other justices, had held that the suspension was unconstitutional and would leave lasting civil and legal scars. The decision was filed in the U.S. Circuit Court for Maryland by Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, a Marylander from Frederick and sometimes in Baltimore and former protege of seventh President Andrew Jackson who had appointed him two decades earlier.
The first fatalities of the war happened during the Baltimore Civil War Riots of Thursday/Friday, April 18 - 19th, 1861, and a year and a half later with the single bloodiest day of combat in American military history occurred during the first major Confederate invasion of the North in the Maryland Campaign, just north above the Potomac River, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, (Washington County) at the Battle of Antietam, on 17 September 1862. Preceded by the pivotal skirmishes at three mountain passes of Crampton, Fox and Turner's Gaps to the east in the Battle of South Mountain, Antietam (also known in the South as the Battle of Sharpsburg), though tactically a draw, was strategically enough of a Union victory in the second year of the war to give 16th President Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to issue in September 1862, the Emancipation Proclamation, taking effect January 1st, 1863, which declared slaves in the rebelling states of the Confederacy (but not those in the areas already occupied by the Union Army or in semi-loyal border slave states like Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri) to be henceforth and forever free.
Later, in July 1864, the Battle of Monocacy near Frederick, Maryland in the third and last major Southern invasion, was also fought on Maryland soil. Monocacy was a tactical victory for the Confederate States Army but a strategic defeat, as the one-day delay inflicted on the attacking Confederates under Gen. Jubal Early by Federal General Lew Wallace's units hastily sent west on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with reinforcements from Baltimore with their stout resistance cost rebel General Early his chance to capture the Union capital of Washington, D.C. during the subsequent attack on the outlying northwestern fortifications near Fort Stevens, witnessed by President Lincoln himself in the only time that a Chief Executive came under hostile fire.
Across the state, nearly 85,000 citizens signed up for the military, with most joining the Union Army. Approximately one third as many enli ...