who was the first white man in kanawha valley
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Hurricane man acts out Kanawha Valley history HURRICANE -- In 1674, Gabriel Arthur hiked through Putnam County on an assignment to explore western lands and trade with Native Americans. Historians believe he was the first white man to see the Kanawha Valley. Putnam County has changed since significantly since Arthur followed the Big Coal River, but one man is on a mission to tell people throughout the state about Arthur’s journey.
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American Indians Yet as Governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson welcomed a delegation from the Kaskaskia Indians. This followed a campaign in the Ohio Valley of Virginia militia led by George Rogers Clark, older brother of William Clark.
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- Early Settlers Near Roanoke. The name of the first white man to visit the upper valley of the West Fork of the Monongahela is enshrouded in mystery. Tradition associates it with the name of one Jacob Bush.ohn R. King was born near Fairmont, April 8, 1842. He was the son of William and Roanna Cooper King, early settlers in Marion and Upshur counties, and a grandson of Joshua Hedges King, and early settler in Prince Williams County Virginia, and who was a close friend of George Washington.
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- After looking at my $2 bill, I saw that the man in question is indeed of darker complexion than the others. However, it is not possible to conclude that he is black. In fact, the man is none other than John Hanson, the first president of the Continental Congress, who is most certainly white.
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Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player? Jackie Robinson was the first African American MLB player. Jackie Robinson is credited with breaking MLB's color barrier in 1947. However, back in 1884 in the American Association, a major league at the time, Moses Walker and his brother Welday Walker played for the Toledo Blue Stockings. Moses was nicknamed Fleet and played 42 games as a catcher and batted .263.
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The First Black Player in Major-League History On the April 15 edition of the Hang Up and Listen podcast, Stefan Fatsis told the story of a possible African-American baseball pioneer named William Edward White. The transcript of Fatsis’ account is below, and you can listen to the story by clicking on the audio player beneath this paragraph.
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Was john hanson black or white? John Hanson was not black but he did serve as the president of the first Continental Congress and so is sometimes referred to as the first president. (There was a black John … Hanson who was a prominent Senator in Liberia.
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- John Mercer Langston was the first black man to become a lawyer in Ohio when he passed the Bar in 1854. When he was elected to the post of Town Clerk for Brownhelm, Ohio in 1855 Langston became one of the first African Americans ever elected to public office in America.
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Pocahontas, Arkansas Wear Schoonover, Pocahontas native, was the first University of Arkansas athlete in any sport named to an All-American team. Schoonover starred as a wide receiver for the Razorbacks in 1927-1929. He was named All-American in 1929, and was named to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1967.
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Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player? Who was the first African American baseball player in Major League Baseball? In 1884, two bothers, Fleet and Welday Walker, black Americans, played for Toledo in the American Association which was considered a Major League at the time.
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- When Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca washed up on a Galveston beach in 1528, he was met by the island's American Indian inhabitants— the Karankawa. This encounter, which Cabeza de Vaca wrote about in his diary, is the first recorded meeting of Europeans and Texas American Indians.
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Who was the first black manager in major league baseball? Buck O'Neill was the first African American hired as a coach for a team in MLB. He was hired by the Chicago Cubs in May, 1962. (Just heard on WGN broadcast that Ernie Banks in 1973 managed a game after the Cubs Whitey Lockman was tossed out of a game, so technically he was the first black to manage a game.
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8 People Who Pretended To Be A Different Race Or Ethnicity 2Iron Eyes Cody. Keep America Beautiful's landmark public service ad People Start Pollution, People Can Stop It debuted on the second ever Earth Day in March 1971. The spot featured the crying Indian, also known as Iron Eyes Cody, an actor who throughout his life claimed to be of Cherokee/Cree extraction.
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Holocauste Literature Nat Turner (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831, that resulted in the deaths of 55 to 65 white people.
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Remembering Perry Wallace, A College Basketball Pioneer PERRY WALLACE: I wasn't interested in being a pioneer or making history or doing any of that. SIEGEL: Wallace had been a professor at American University, a Justice Department lawyer and even a history maker. Fifty years ago, Perry Wallace became the first African-American basketball player in the Southeastern Conference. He played for Vanderbilt University. To say that wasn't easy on him is putting it mildly. His biographer, Andrew Maraniss, has told that story in the book Strong Inside: Perry Wallace And The Collision Of Race And Sports In The South. Both men were on this program three years ago with my co-host, Audie Cornish.
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- With the Steinhatchee River on the west and the Suwannee River on the east, it was prime land for the Native Americans and early settlers. According from one source, the first white man to come to the Dixie area was in 1820, a young man named George Miller who was from North Carolina.
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- 1 1912 - The Railroad Porter, a comedy directed by Bill Foster (a pioneering black filmmaker), became the first black film.  1914 - Sam Lucas was the first African American actor to star in a full-length film playing the title role in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Enumclaw, Washington One of the first white settlers in south King County was Allen L. Porter. In 1853, he claimed a 320-acre (1.3 km 2) parcel on the White River, about three miles (5 km) west of the site of Enumclaw.He maintained a troubled relationship with the local Smalkamish tribe (some of the ancestors of the Muckleshoot tribe) for some time, and in 1855 his cabin was burned to the ground.n the 1950s Enumclaw Insurance Group greatly expanded its business and the home office became a major employer in the town. The company is an insurer doing business in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Utah. In 2005 the Enumclaw horse sex case occurred in a farm near Enumclaw, in unincorporated King County.
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Peter White (Michigan) Peter White (Michigan) Peter Quintard White (October 31, 1830 – June 6, 1908) was one of the original settlers of Marquette, Michigan. He was a banker, businessman, real estate developer, and a philanthropist; and was involved in a number of the area's iron mining-related businesses, including acting as a director the Cleveland Iron Company.
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- James Pierson Beckwourth, born James Beckwith and generally known as, Jim Beckwourth (April 26, 1798[1] or 1800 – October 29, 1866 or 1867) was an American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer. A mulatto born into slavery in Virginia, he was freed by his father (and master) and apprenticed to a blacksmith; later he moved to the American West.
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Stand Watie Degataga, lit. 'Stand firm') (December 12, 1806 – September 9, 1871) — also known as Standhope Uwatie, Tawkertawker, and Isaac S. Watie — was a leader of the Cherokee Nation, and not only a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, but the only Native American general of the Confederate Army.
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- One of Tennessee's earliest settlements.  ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SPOTS IN THE WORLD  - Daniel Boone Daniel Boone and William Bean were the first white men known to have viewed the land.. Part of the brick addition of the Bean Station Tavern moved by TVA in 1941. Rendering of Historic Bean Station Tavern.
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- The Catawba Native Americans were the first to settle Mecklenburg County (in the Charlotte area) and were first recorded in European records around 1567. By 1759 half the Catawba tribe had been killed by smallpox.
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- Jedediah Strong Smith: I wanted to be the first to view a country on which the eyes of a white man had never gazed and to follow the course of rivers that run through a new land.. No Mountain Man held more potential for enriching the world’s understanding of the American West than did Jedediah Smith.
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Booker T. Washington The guest of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1901, Washington was the first African American invited to the White House. 1  This visit was dramatized as the subject of an opera, A Guest of Honor, by Scott Joplin, noted African-American composer. It was first produced in 1903.