The 24
Star Flag .
1822-1836 It's July 5, 1822 and this is our new flag which became official yesterday. The 24th star recognized the entrance of Missouri
into the union on August 10, 1821. It will fly for the next fourteen years.
In the United States and the world:
- Presidents were:
- James Monroe (1817-1825), John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) and Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
- 1822 - Boston streets lit by gas
- 1823 - The Monroe Doctrine closes the Americas to colonization
- 1824 - Beethoven writes his Symphony Number Nine
- 1824 - Erie Canal finished
- July 4, 1826 - John Adams and Thomas Jefferson , founding fathers and political rivals, both die on the same day - the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Adams died in Quincy, MA and Jefferson died at his home Monticello.
- 1829 - Suttee abolished in British India. What's Suttee? It was a quaint custom whereby widows were, umm, cremated along with their dead husbands.
- Great Cholera Pandemic spreads through Europe (started in India in 1826 - reaches Scotland in 1832)
- 1831 - U. S. population is 12.8 million. Great Britain 13.9 million
- 1832 - New York has first horse drawn trolleys
- 1832 - France has first railroad
- 1833 - Autobiography of Davy Crockett is a best seller
- 1833 - Cyrus Hall McCormick patents the reaper )
- 1835 - Texas declares the right to secede from Mexico
- 1,098 miles of railroad in the U. S. (1835)
- 1835 - P. T. Barnum starts collecting suckers when he exhibits Joyce Heth, allegedly the 160 year old former nurse of George Washington
- 1836 - Davy Crockett killed at the Alamo and Texas
wins independence from Mexico
- Governors are:
- William King (resigns suddenly in 1821), William D. Williamson (1821), Benjamin Ames (1821-1822), Daniel Rose (1822), Albion K. Parris (1822-1827), Enoch Lincoln (1827-1829), Nathan Cutler (1829-1830), Jonathan Glidden Hunton (1830-1831), Samuel Emerson Smith (1831-1834), Robert Pinckney Dunlap (1834-1838)
- Want to know more about this Gaggle of Governors? CLICK HERE!
- Augusta becomes the state capital (1832)
And in Plantations Eight and Nine and later Franklin:
- Assessors were:
- David Springer, Jr., William Butler, and John Butler (1822)
- Stephen Scammon, John Springer, III, and John Butler (1823-1824)
- Selectmen were elected after Franklin was incorporated:
- Stephen Scammon, David Springer, Jr., and John Donnell (1825)
- Stephen Scammon, David Springer, Jr., and Oliver C. Donnell (1826)
- Stephen Scammon, David Springer, Jr., and David Hooper (1827)
- Stephen Scammon, David Springer, Jr., and John Springer, III (1828)
- Joseph Scammon, John West, and Daniel West (1829)
- David Springer, Jr., Oliver C. Donnell, and Samuel Bragdon (1830)
- David Springer, Jr., Oliver C. Donnell, and Stevens Gould (1831)
- David Springer, Jr., Stevens Gould, and Oliver C. Donnell (1832)
- Joseph Scammon, David Springer, Jr., and Oliver C. Donnell (1833)
- Joseph Scammon, John West, and David Springer, Jr. (1834)
- Stevens Gould, Russell Wooster, and Samuel Donnell (1835-1836)
- 1822 - We have a bridge over Egypt Stream.
- 1822 - We're building a new school for the Northern District.
- January 24, 1825 - Former sections of Plantations 8 & 9 become the incorporated Town of Franklin.
- April 4, 1825 - First Town Meeting - Voters decide to annex Martin's Ridge to Franklin.
- 1825 - Columbia built and
launched in Franklin - Schooner, 98 tons.
- 1826 - Schooner Dirigo built and launched in Franklin - 114 tons.
- 1832
- First Dog Tax enacted by the Town of Franklin
- Schooner Amadillo of 104 tons built and launched
in Franklin. Hmmm. I wonder.... Did they really mean to say Armadillo
and could this be an historic example of Mainers dropping their ah's?
If anyone has any info on the the naming of this ship, please drop me an E-mail
at: becky@franklinmaine.net
