Word: valley
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Geological Excursions of the April Recess. (1) To the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., conducted by Professor Davis. (2) To Franklin Furnace and other points in Sussex Co., N. J., conducted by Professor Wolff...
...Saturday.Geological Excursions of the April Recess. (1) To the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., conducted by Professor Davis...
...Excursion to the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., conducted by Professor W. M. Davis. Special features: The Former outlet of Lake Ontario...
...years, but who governed by means of deputies whom he sent out. Perhaps the most famous of these was Alexander Spottswood, who came over in 1710. His most memorable act was the conducting of an expedition, consisting of fifty men, over the hitherto unexplored Blue Ridge into the Shenandoah Valley. Spottswood too was in 1722 removed as the result of a dispute with Dr. Blair concerning the governors right to appoint the clergy to their parishes...
...Fiske spoke of the important part played by the Scotch-Irish in the history of the Alleghany region. About 1730 they began pouring into the Shenandoah Valley, bringing Democracy and Presbyterianism where hitherto the Cavalier ideas and the Established Church had held sway. This conflict resulted in a thing most happy for the colony-the separation of church and state. "Indeed," said the lecturer, "the Shenandoah may be called the cradle of Democracy...