Month: August 2014
Cyrus McCormick and His Threshing Machine
For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is the story of a birthday…
Building a Utopian Society
In 1825, Robert Own of Wales, purchased an entire town in the state of Indiana. His dream was to create a utopian society where morals were upheld…
A Place Called Harmony
Harmony. It might be defined as finding peace with one’s self and one another. That’s what the people who established the town of Harmony were looking…
A Long-Established Community
There are many reasons people came from Europe to the newly founded United States. Some came to find freedom to practice their religion. That was the…
Developing the Self Scouring Plow
Although you may associate his name with tractors, he never saw one. Yet his name is synonymous with the equipment used in agriculture…
Burning the White House
It was an act that seemed unthinkable. Another nation’s army marched into the United States capital and burned its most important government buildings to the ground, with…
The Most Famous Lady to Occupy the White House
Perhaps the most famous first lady to ever occupy the White House was Dolly Madison. She was known to host parties with lavish desserts, but she is…
George Washington’s Influence on the White House Design
Although George Washington was the nation’s first president, he never got to live inside the presidential mansion that was being constructed in Washington, D.C. Our first presidents…
The Affect of Farming on Building the White House and Capitol
It was a long and tedious process to build the U.S. Capitol and what we know as the White House. The hand labor, intricate carvings and movement…
The Fertile Farmland of Palmer, Alaska
When you think of fertile farmland, you perhaps think of a location with deep rich soil in the Midwest. But to find the land growing…