REMEMBERING THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE FOR CHINESE IN RULEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI.......... - One room "shotgun" style house; formerly used as a servant’s quarter - Potbelly stove for heating…….lighting with paper and chopped-up wooden apple crates for fuel - Utility room in the back used to ...
Dr. Gloria Hom shares the remarkable life story of her grandfather, Thomas Foon Chew, who was a very successful Chinese-American businessman during the early 20th Century, in the Chinese Exclusion Act period in California. Settling in the South Bay, he became a cannery magnate, starting and ...
Samuel Shaw John O’Donnell initiated trade between Canton, China and Baltimore in 1785, operating his own merchant sailing vessels. While the Baltimore-China trade was short-lived, it involved many of our early Founding Fathers. On February 24, join John Danz to learn ...
https://www.mountvernon.org/ Take Metrorail's Yellow Line to Huntington Station. Exit at the lower level of the station (Huntington Avenue) to catch a Fairfax Connector bus to Mount Vernon. Board the Fairfax Connector Bus #101, the Fort Hunt Line, for a 20-minute trip to Mount Vernon ...
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/20009482 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/baltimore-and-ohio-railroad-civil-war The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (BO) was one of the oldest and most historically significant railroad co ...