The year 1997 was a busy time for Voight in which he appeared in six films, beginning with Rosewood, based on the 1923 destruction of the primarily black town of Rosewood, Florida, by the white residents of nearby Sumner.

The Rosewood Massacre occurred in Levy County, in the first week of January 1923.

The Colfax massacre is among the events of Reconstruction and late 19th century history which has received new national attention, much as the 1923 massacre in Rosewood, Florida did near the end of the 20th century.

* African-American survivors of Rosewood, a town destroyed in 1923 by white neighbors

The remains of Sarah Carrier's house where two blacks and two whites were killed in Rosewood, Florida | Rosewood in January 1923

The Rosewood massacre was a violent, racially motivated conflict that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States.

A cabin burns in Rosewood on January 4, 1923

alt = A color digital map of the town of Rosewood marking the structures that stood on January 1, 1923 and the Seabord Air Line Railway

Robie Mortin, Sam Carter's niece, was seven years old when her father put her on a train to Chiefland, east of Rosewood, on January 3, 1923.

The report was titled " Documented History of the Incident which Occurred at Rosewood, Florida in January 1923 ".

The legislature eventually settled on $ 1. 5 million: to pay $ 150, 000 to each person who could prove he or she lived in Rosewood during 1923, and a $ 500, 000 pool for people who could apply for the funds after demonstrating that they had an ancestor who owned property in Rosewood during the same time.

" A Documented History of the Incident Which Occurred at Rosewood, Florida in 1923 " ( Hosted online by Displays for Schools )

" Appendices: A Documented History of the Incident Which Occurred at Rosewood, Florida in 1923 ".

Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen ( University Press of Florida ; 2010 ) 280 pages ; Focuses on the years 1880 to 1923 in a study of how an influx of Irish immigrant workers transformed the city's waterfront.

In 1923 the Florida legislature created Collier County from Lee County, with the county seat at Everglade.

Drake operated a saw mill and lumber company in Princeton supplying Miami, the Florida Keys and Cuba until the local timber gave out in 1923.

Although two homes were built on Monte Cristo in 1923, and one in 1946, things were quiet until the mid-1950s when a Dr. Bradley " Doc " Waldron went to Tallahassee and persuaded the State of Florida to sell him Pine Key, Cabbage Key, Pardee Key and the surrounding bay bottom.

* Charles Merian Cooper ( 1856 – 1923 ), American congressman from Florida

The brothers are sons of Thomas Ethelbert Skilling, Jr ( 1923 – 2006 ) and his wife Betty C. Skilling ( 1924 – 2008 ), of Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, and grandsons of Thomas Ethelbert Skilling, Sr. ( 1896 – 1968 ) and his wife Lillian Alta Foringer ( 1897 – 1979 ) of Parnassus, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and Broward County, Florida.

The school underwent several stages of growth and development through the years and in 1923, it merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Florida and became a co-ed high school.

Marjorie Rice ( born 1923, St. Petersburg, Florida ) is an American amateur mathematician most famous for her discoveries in geometry.

Leedskalnin originally built the castle, which he named Rock Gate Park, in Florida City, Florida around 1923.

They used the facility for their 1923 and 1924 spring training and exhibition games before moving to a newer stadium in Fort Myers, Florida.

This organization was started at the University of Florida in 1923 under the presidency of Albert Murphree.

" Florida Blue Key was founded on November 1, 1923, several days prior to the University's Homecoming celebration.

He also served as Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida from 1917 to 1923.

The earliest evidence found of the old state road system is on a 1917 State Road Department map ; in 1923 the Florida State Legislature began writing the routes into law.

Louie L. Wainwright ( born September 11, 1923 ) was Secretary of the Florida Division of Corrections from 1962 to 1987, more than a quarter of a century.

His first visit to the area was in 1923 and he maintained a strong tie there until the end of his life.

In 1923 she bought a former deer park and vast sheep farm in the Troutbeck Valley called Troutbeck Park Farm, restoring its land, its thousands of Herdwick sheep, and establishing her as one of the major Herdwick sheep farmers in the area.

* 1923 – Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.

* 1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.

By 1923, the fate of the area had still not been decided, prompting Lithuanian forces to invade in January 1923 and seize the port.

The influx of soldiers led to the area's rise as a nightlife district, briefly interrupted by the Great Kanto Earthquake which flattened the area in 1923.

The area around Bryce Canyon became a U. S. National Monument in 1923 and was designated as a national park in 1928.

* Modern mapping of the area Ordnance Survey Ireland Select " Historic mapping " to see site of the " Boyne Obelisk " ( destroyed, 1923 ) on the northern side of the bridge.

Opened in June 1909 and extended in 1923, it now contains football pitches, a running track, a children's paddling pool, two extensive playgrounds, a large dog-free grassed area and a pavilion set amongst trees and shrubs.

The village expanded rapidly between 1923 and 1939 when a series of garden estates – encouraged by the Metropolitan Railway – grew around its historic core, and it was largely from this time onwards that the area ( including Hatch End, which forms the northeastern part of Pinner ) assumed much of its present-day suburban character.

Hartford City leaders attracted businesses such as Overhead Door ( 1923 ) and 3M ( 1955 ) to replace some of the companies that left the area.

One of the first individuals to build a home in the area was Maurice L. Reid, who came to Tucson in 1923 seeking a " walking cure " for tuberculosis.

West Covina was incorporated as an independent city in 1923 to prevent the city of Covina from building a sewage farm in the area.

Yankeetown was founded in 1923 by the Indiana politician and lawyer Armanis F. Knotts, who moved to the area because of his great love for hunting.

The world's largest potato processing company was founded in 1923 near Declo by a 14-year-old entrepreneur named J. R. Simplot, who had moved to the area with his family as a toddler.

* Wilburn Snyder ( 1923 – 2008 ), a Baptist minister in the Houston area and a survivor of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines, was born in Plain Dealing.

The area was incorporated as a village in 1923 and as a city in 1965.

Albert Bond Lambert, the first person in the Saint Louis area to receive a pilot's license, and fellow members of the Aero Club leased the field in 1920 and renamed it the Lambert-St. Louis Flying Field in 1923.

Hooper School, located a quarter mile west of the depot on the north side of East Main St .( now demolished ), provided primary education ( Kindergarten-8th grade, K-6 after 1954 ) for area children from 1923 to 1966.

In late 1922 or early 1923, Coats Steam Car moved to the area, but eventually went out of business.

Between 1919 and 1923 oil exploration began in the area, and on November 27, 1924, the Roy Simmons No. 1 well came in as a gusher.

The completion of a railroad connection to Cedar City in 1923 established the area as a tourism gateway to nearby Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, and Grand Canyon National Park, in addition to Cedar Breaks National Monument.

The area was made public after the creation of the Mount Baker Highway in 1923.