Dempster Industries has been a fixture in the Beatrice business community since the late 19th Century. For years Nebraska has been known for its vast amounts of farms and crop fields. Without the proper equipment, farmers would not be able to maintain their farms and thrive. When technology was limited and all farm work was done without the use of high-tech machinery, an assortment of tools was required to make the family farm profitable. With this in mind, Charles Dempster started Dempster Industries in 1878. The company was originally known as Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company. It manufactured the necessities needed to farm such as windmills and various forms of pumps. The company also provided many new settlers with steady jobs working for the company. Nearly 134 years later, Dempster Industries continues to supply farm equipment and is recognized as the oldest manufacturer of windmills in the nation.
In the spring of 1857, a steamship by the name of Hannibal made its way up the Missouri River filled with passengers with one goal in sight: find a place in the west to settle and begin a new community. A group of men onboard gathered to create a settlement organization, later named the Nebraska Association. It included merchants, doctors, lawyers, masons, bricklayers, an engineer, and a surveyor (Dobbs 118). The committee began in Nebraska City and later headed west where they came across the Big Blue River. The large river and surrounding land made for an ideal settling ground. The Nebraska Association came to an agreement to name the area Beatrice. It was officially incorporated on October 29, 1858 (Beatrice Nebraska: Community Facts 2). Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company was founded twenty years after the official incorpo...
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Farmers began to cultivate vast areas of needed crops such as wheat, cotton, and even corn. Document D shows a picture of The Wheat Harvest in 1880, with men on earlier tractors and over 20-30 horses pulling the tractor along the long and wide fields of wheat. As farmers started to accumilate their goods, they needed to be able to transfer the goods across states, maybe from Illinios to Kansas, or Cheyenne to Ohmaha. Some farmers chose to use cattle trails to transport their goods. Document B demonstrates a good mapping of the major railroads in 1870 and 1890. Although cattle trails weren't used in 1890, this document shows the existent of several cattle trails leading into Chyenne, San Antonio, Kansas City and other towns nearby the named ones in 1870. So, farmers began to transport their goods by railroads, which were publically used in Germany by 1550 and migrated to the United States with the help of Colonel John Stevens in 1826. In 1890, railroads expanded not only from California, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada, but up along to Washington, Montana, Michigan, down to New Mexico and Arizona as well. Eastern States such as New Jersey, Tennesse, Virginia and many others were filled with existing railroads prior to 1870, as Colonel John Stevens started out his railroad revolutionzing movement in New Jersey in 1815.
I am from a small town called Bristol Borough, Pennsylvania. It is along the Delaware River, about 25 miles northeast of Philadelphia. Bristol Borough was founded in 1681. This is the states third oldest borough, that was once a busy river port with important shipbuilding activities (Cohen 438). It is predominately residential, with the exception of Mill Street, the community's traditional commercial street. It includes fine examples of many major styles and idioms, reflecting the community's long history and its importance as a transportation and commercial center (Owen 133). The 28-acre Bristol Industrial Historic District includes the original town of Bristol and the residential area that extends northeast along the bank of the Delaware River (Owen 132). The Bristol Industrial Historic District is a significant collection of the factory and mill complexes containing elements dating from 1875-1937 (Owen 133). Among the mills is the Grundy Mill Complex. It is a visual representation of industrial growth of Bristol Borough. This mill was run by Joseph R. Grundy. The dramatic scale of later buildings stand as the source and monument to the wealth and power of Joseph Grundy (Owen 145). Joseph Grundy was the proprietor of the Bristol Worsted Mills, and one of the most prominent manufacturers and businessmen of Bucks County (Green 252). The Bristol Worsted Mills no longer run but the building is still standing. Bristol owes a lot to Joseph R. Grundy for his contributions to the people and the town itself.
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When writing William Cooper's Town, Alan Taylor connects local history with widespread political, economic, and cultural patterns in the early republic, appraises the balance of the American Revolution as demonstrated by a protrusive family's background, and merge the history of the frontier settlement with the visualizing and reconstituting of that experience in literature. Taylor achieves these goals through a vivid and dramatic coalescing of narrative and analytical history. His book will authoritatively mandate and regale readers in many ways, especially for its convincing and memorable representation of two principles subjects- William Cooper, the frontier entrepreneur and town builder, and his youngest son, the theoretical James Fenimore Cooper, who molded his own novelistic portrayal of family history through accounts such as The Pioneers (1823).
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In 1854, Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act to create new territories. Stephen Douglass wrote the act in an effort to attract the transcontinental railroad to his home city of Chicago. Douglass needed Kansas, and Nebraska, to become official territories to make it happen. Douglass believed the act would help Chicago economically, and aid his hopes of becoming president by ending The Missouri Compromise. Popular sovereignty replaced geographic restrictions as the decided factor on the issue of slavery. The opportunity to move slavery further north galvanized the south, and outraged the n...
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In response to the economic differences between the North and the South, the Civil War took place in the mid-19th century. In contribution to the Civil War, the Kansas-Nebraska Act is a significant cause that plays a vital role towards the drastic changes in America. Introduced by Senator Stephen Douglas, it was a bill that divided the land west of Missouri into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska. When the U.S. Congress passed the law in 1854, it created tensions between pro- and anti-slavery groups, dividing the nation even more. (Goldfield et. al 396). The eruption of violence and the changes in America that resulted from the Kansas-Nebraska Act would become the prelude to the Civil War.
These include the history of windmills and their role concerning the survival in the immense plains that range from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River. The rise of the economic condition of those living around the wind farms along with the surge of investments from energy companies. Finally, the promising data relating to the amount of energy produced, and the consequences they will have on the environment. In the later and longer part of the article, the possible negative results or wind farms are brought up. Primarily, the points against wind farms have to do with the conservation of wildlife. This is separated into two sections, the first addresses the dangers wind turbines present to birds, the other on the dangers presented to bats.
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As soon as construction was started in 1931, a bunch of the workers had already started to move to sites closer to the dam construction site. Soon, all of the workers had settled in a spot, not too far from the construction site called Boulder City. Boulder City was a very impressive town. The people who lived there quickly formed bonds with each other, and started to build public houses such as churches. The towns people started a news paper, and soon without much at all, the town turned into the only town where everyone had an income in America. The biggest problem with the town was that there was complete chaos with the finances and the economic startup in the town. There was one company, who until 1933 when scrip payments were made illegal, was the only company where dam workers could go to cash their paychecks and spend them. This forced all of the entrepreneurs who were trying to sell items that people need, but were being forced to buy at the other store to lose money. Soon, ...
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