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Ben Sherod
The ''Ben Sherod'' (properly ''Ben Sherrod'') was an American steamboat that was constructed in 1835. The boat was likely named for or owned at least in part by Alabama planter-baron Benjamin Sherrod, one of the largest slaveholders in the state. In February 1837 there was an accident at the Vicksburg, Mississippi steamboat landing where seven to 10 men were killed by being thrown into the water during a transfer by yawl. The ''Natchez Courier'' condemned this maneuver, writing, "we would remark, that the practice of sending passengers ashore while the boat is under way is a dangerous and reprehensible one. It was formerly customary on the Hudson river, but it having occasioned the loss of many lives, it has been laid aside for some years." The ''Vicksburg Weekly Sentinel'' reported that Captain Castleman was "running a race with the ''Fulton'' which was just ahead of him, and hence he would not spare the time necessary to lash his boat." The ''Vicksburg Whig'' discounted rumors th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conflagration And Explosion Of The Ben Sherod (sank 1837, Etching C 1846)
A conflagration is a large fire in the built environment that spreads via structure to structure ignition due to radiant or convective heat, or ember transmission. Conflagrations often damage human life, animal life, health, and/or property. A conflagration can begin accidentally or be intentionally created (arson). A very large fire can produce a firestorm, in which the central column of rising heated air induces strong inward winds, which supply oxygen to the fire. Conflagrations can cause casualties including deaths or injuries from burns, collapse of structures and attempts to escape, and smoke inhalation. Firefighting is the practice of extinguishing a conflagration, protecting life and property and minimizing damage and injury. One of the goals of fire prevention is to avoid conflagrations. When a conflagration is extinguished, there is often a fire investigation to determine the cause of the fire. Causes and types During a conflagration a significant movement of air an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Sherrod
Benjamin Sherrod (January 16, 1777 – February 25, 1847) was an American capitalist who owned cotton plantations and slaves in Lawrence County, Alabama, in the vicinity of the Tennessee River. He has been described as a "planter-baron." Biography Sherrod was born in Halifax County, North Carolina, to Mary Ricks Copeland and Isaac Sherrod. His parents died when he was very young, and he was raised by an uncle or grandfather. He was educated at the College of William and Mary, and the University of North Carolina. Sherrod served in the War of 1812 as a quartermaster or commissary of North Carolina troops. He had bread ovens set up for the troops at every place they camped. He was politically a Whig (opposed to Andrew Jackson and Jacksonism). He moved first to Georgia and then to the then-newly opened section of northern Alabama drained by the Tennessee River. He was remembered for his precise and careful agricultural systems used on the plantation he called Cotton Garden. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Vicksburg is a historic city in Warren County, Mississippi, United States. It is the county seat. The population was 21,573 at the 2020 census. Located on a high bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from Louisiana, Vicksburg was built by French colonists in 1719. The outpost withstood an attack from the native Natchez people. It was incorporated as Vicksburg in 1825 after Methodist missionary Newitt Vick. The area that is now Vicksburg was long occupied by the Natchez as part of their historical territory along the Mississippi. The first Europeans who settled the area were French colonists who built Fort Saint Pierre in 1719 on the high bluffs overlooking the Yazoo River at present-day Redwood. They conducted fur trading with the Natchez and others, and started plantations. During the American Civil War, it was a key Confederate river-port, and its July 1863 surrender to Ulysses S. Grant, along with the concurrent Battle of Gettysburg, marked the turning-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson River
The Hudson River, historically the North River, is a river that flows from north to south largely through eastern New York (state), New York state. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains at Henderson Lake (New York), Henderson Lake in the town of Newcomb, New York, Newcomb, and flows south to the New York Bay , New York Bay, a tidal estuary between New York City, New York and Jersey City, Jersey City, before draining into the Atlantic Ocean , Atlantic Ocean. The river marks boundaries between several County (New York), New York counties and the eastern border between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey , New Jersey. The lower half of the river is a tidal estuary, deeper than the body of water into which it flows, occupying the Hudson Fjord, an inlet that formed during the most recent period of North American Quaternary glaciation, glaciation, estimated at 26,000 to 13,300 years ago. Even as far north as the city of Troy, New York, Troy, the flow of the river chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuscumbia, Alabama
Tuscumbia is a city in, and the county seat of Colbert County, Alabama, Colbert County, Alabama, United States. The population was 9,054 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, and was estimated to be 9,169 in 2023. The city is part of Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area, The Shoals metropolitan area. Tuscumbia was the hometown of Helen Keller, who lived at Ivy Green. Several sites in the city are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, especially in the Tuscumbia Historic District. The city is also the site of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. And the town is famous for their Legendary Annual Catfish Cooking Contest. History When the Michael Dixon family arrived about 1816, they were the first European Americans to settle here. It was traditional territory of the Chickasaw people. The settlers traded with Chief Tucumseh for the Tuscumbia Valley and built their home at the head of the big spring. Other settlers joined them and there developed a village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez ( ) is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,520 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia, Louisiana, Natchez was a prominent city in the Antebellum South, antebellum years, a center of cotton planters and Mississippi River trade. Natchez is approximately southwest of the State capital, capital of Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson and north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, located on the lower Mississippi River. Natchez is the List of municipalities in Mississippi, 28th-largest city in the state. The city was named for the Natchez people, who with their ancestors, inhabited much of the area from the 8th century AD through the French colonial period. History Established by French colonization of the Americas, French colonists in 1716, Natchez is one of the oldest and most important European settlements in the lower Mississippi River Valley. After the Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, most populous city in Louisiana and the French Louisiana region, the second-most populous in the Deep South, and the twelfth-most populous in the Southeastern United States. The city is coextensive with Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Orleans Parish. New Orleans serves as a major port and a commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast region. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of approximately 1 million, making it the most populous metropolitan area in Louisiana and the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 59th-most populous in the United States. New Orleans is world-renowned for Music of New Orleans, its distincti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the List of cities in Kentucky, most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, and the list of United States cities by population, 27th-most-populous city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's List of United States cities by area, 24th-largest city; however, by population density, it is the 265th most dense city. Louisville is the historical county seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky, Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. Since 2003, Louisville and Jefferson County have shared the same borders following a consolidated city-county, city-county merger. The consolidated government is officially called the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, commonly known as Louisville Metro. The term "Jefferson County" is still used in some contexts, especially for Louisville neighborhoods#Incorporated places, incorporated cities outside the "Lou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Adams, Mississippi
Fort Adams is a small, river port community in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, United States, about south of Natchez, Mississippi, Natchez. It is notable for having been the U.S. port of entry on the Mississippi River, before the acquisition of New Orleans; it was the site of an early fort by that name. The town was called Wilkinburg and was incorporated in 1798. Prior to that time, the community was known as Loftus Heights and formerly had been a Jesuit mission called the Rock of Davion, first settled as such around 1699. This is also the site where the Choctaw Treaty of Fort Adams was signed in 1801. History In 1699, a French people, French priest named Father Albert Davion established a mission (station), mission on the Mississippi River bluffs at or near the site of Fort Adams.Noël Baillargeon, “DAVION, ALBERT,” in ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography'', vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed April 24, 2025, ht ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Disasters In The United States By Death Toll
This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at List of diplomatic missions of the United States, diplomatic missions of the United States, or incidents outside of the United States in which a number of U.S. citizens were killed. * Domestic deaths due to war in America are included except the American Civil War. For stats on this and U.S. military deaths in foreign locations, see United States military casualties of war and list of battles with most United States military fatalities. * Due to inflation, the monetary damage estimates are not comparable. Unless otherwise noted, the year given is the year in which the currency's valuation was calculated. Over 1,000,000 deaths Over 100,000 deaths Over 400 deaths 201 to 400 deaths 81 to 200 deaths 41 to 80 deaths 26 to 40 deaths 15 to 25 deaths See also By type * List of missing ships * List of boiler explosions * List of Indian massacres in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd's Steamboat Directory
''Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters'' is a book published in 1856 listing steamboat businesses in the United States, along with an illustrated catalog of American maritime disasters. It covers "mainly river material, with a substantial scattering of lake items." History John T. Lloyd heavily advertised the book in 1855, promising "The STEAMBOAT DIRECTORY will contain a complete list and description of all the Steamboats now afloat in the Western and Southern waters. The length, model, speed, power and tonnage of each boat, where and by whom built, the name of the boat, with the trade she is in...The RIVER DIRECTORY will contain a list and description of all the steamboat disasters that have occurred on the Western and Southern waters, beautifully illustrated, with a list of all those who have perished by their burning, sinking and exploding, on the Western and Southern waters. The Directory will contain maps of the Ohio River, Ohio, Mississippi Riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maritime Incidents In The United States
Maritime may refer to: Geography * Maritime Alps, a mountain range in the southwestern part of the Alps * Maritime Region, a region in Togo * Maritime Southeast Asia * The Maritimes, the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island * Maritime County, former county of Poland, existing from 1927 to 1939, and from 1945 to 1951 * Neustadt District, Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, known from 1939 to 1942 as ''Maritime District'', a former district of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, Nazi Germany, from 1939 to 1945 * The Maritime Republics, thalassocratic city-states on the Italian peninsula during the Middle Ages Museums * Maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum), a museum for the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. * Maritime Museum (Belize) * Maritime Museum (Macau), China * Maritime Museum (Malaysia) * Maritime Museum (Stockholm), Sweden Music * ''Maritime'' (album), a 2005 album by Minotaur Shock * Maritime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
