LOCATION: The name for this biome, temperate grasslands, is a great description for what it is like here. The most important plants in this biome are grasses! Temperate grasslands have some of the darkest, richest soils in the world (not in wealth, but in nutrients).OCATION: The name for this biome, temperate grasslands, is a great description for what it is like here. The most important plants in this biome are grasses! Temperate grasslands have some of the darkest, richest soils in the world (not in wealth, but in nutrients).
The Starving Time Jamestowners, one of them portrayed here by Jared Larson, ran out of their beds Cryeinge owtt we are starved. Jamestown fort at the edge of the James River, where, as George Percy wrote There were never Englishmen left in a forreigne Countrey in such miserie. After the Starving Time of 1609â10, perhaps sixty of 500 English had survived famine, disease, and Indians.
This situation came to a head with the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, a pivotal event described in Nat Brandt's book The Town That Started the Civil War. On September 13, 1858, a fugitive named John Price was captured by federal officials and held in neighboring Wellington, Ohio. A large group of Oberlin residents, consisting of both white and black townspeople, students, and faculty, set out for Wellington to release Price from captivity.