[permalink] [id link]
Fort Jones was established on October 18, 1852, named in honor of Colonel Roger Jones, who had been the Adjutant General of the Army from March 1825 to July 1852, and would continue to serve Siskiyou County's military needs until the order was received to evacuate some six years later.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Fort and Jones
After failed negotiations to build a new stadium on the site of the Cotton Bowl, Jerry Jones along with the city of Arlington, Texas a suburb of Fort Worth, funded the stadium at a cost of $ 1. 3 billion.
* Fort Roger Jones ( 1839 ), Aucilla ( Ocilla Ferry ), north of US 90.
In 1991, eight cable providers volunteered to move The Disney Channel to their expanded basic cable packages, instead of offering it as a premium channel ; Jones Intercable was the first provider to carry the channel as a basic network, initially carried on the Basic Plus tier on its Fort Myers and Broward County, Florida systems as a test run.
The Naskapis had received " relief " from the Federal Government as early as the end of the 19th century, but their first regular contacts with the Federal Government began only in 1949, when Colonel H. M. Jones, Superintendent of Welfare Services in Ottawa, and M. Larivière of the Abitibi Indian Agency visited them in Fort Chimo and arranged for the issuing of welfare to them.
* Fort Jones
Etna is located in Scott Valley next to the CPD of Greenview and the city of Fort Jones.
Fort Jones is a city in the Scott Valley area of Siskiyou County, California, United States.
Fort Jones takes its name from the frontier outpost once located less than a mile to the south of the city's corporate limits.
The name remained unchanged until 1860 when local citizens successfully petitioned the postal department to change the name to Fort Jones, a name that is retained to the present day.
The post at Fort Jones was established by its first commandant, Captain ( brevet Major ) Edward H. Fitzgerald, E Company, 1st U. S. Dragoons.
Fort Jones ceased to exist as a military garrison on June 23, 1858.
The history of Fort Jones would not be complete without the short list of officers stationed there who would attain national prominence in ensuing years.
Hood ( Confederate ); Ulysses S. Grant ( Union ) was named to Fort Jones, but was Absent Without Leave for whatever his tenure would have been ; George Crook ( Union ), who would arguable become one of the greatest leaders for the Grand Army of the Republic less than a decade later ; and George Pickett ( Confederate ).
Fort Jones is located at ( 41. 607303 ,-122. 841817 ).
The 2010 United States Census reported that Fort Jones had a population of 839.
The racial makeup of Fort Jones was 650 ( 77. 5 %) White, 33 ( 3. 9 %) African American, 61 ( 7. 3 %) Native American, 8 ( 1. 0 %) Asian, 0 ( 0. 0 %) Pacific Islander, 23 ( 2. 7 %) from other races, and 64 ( 7. 6 %) from two or more races.
In the state legislature Fort Jones is located in the 4th Senate District, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa, and in the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Republican Jim Nielsen.
Federally, Fort Jones is located in California's 2nd congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 13 and is represented by Republican Wally Herger.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Norman F. Cardoza is a Fort Jones native, son of John C. and Emily S. Cardoza, and is a product of Moffett Creek School and Fort Jones High School.
* Fort Jones Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania
Fort and was
Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.
The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.
Nevertheless so short was the supply of seed that the settlers were forced to retreat to Fort Daer for food.
In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.
Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.
Early in 1822 he was at Fort Garry offering to bring in pork, flour, liquor and tobacco.
As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.
Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.
Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.
When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.
The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.
Gen. John B. Floyd, who was to take command at Fort Donelson as the senior general present just before Brig.
Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.
Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.
In 1858 he was transferred to Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor, but by the start of the Civil War, he was a captain and second in command in the garrison at Fort Sumter, under Maj. Robert Anderson.
Fort Astoria was constructed in 1811.
In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram daily newspaper ( morning edition ) 19 September 1970, J. Howard " Doc " DeCelles states that he was actually the victim of the first skyjacking in December 1929.
Trapping was minimal and, after traveling about 1300 miles ( 650 on foot ), he finally arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Fort and established
The early British capital of the Colony of Nova Scotia ( sometimes referred to as the 14th Colony ) was established at Annapolis Royal, where Fort Anne was constructed.
In 1638 New Sweden, a Swedish trading post and colony, was established at Fort Christina ( now in Wilmington ) by Peter Minuit at the head of a group of Swedes, Finns and Dutch.
The North West Company's Fort Nez Percés was established near the Snake River junction several years later.
Davenport was established on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire, and named after his good friend Colonel George Davenport who was stationed at Fort Armstrong during the war.
In the summer of 1835, the regiment blazed a trail along the Des Moines river and established outposts from present-day Des Moines to Fort Dodge.
In the mid-1950s, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Col. Harland Sanders came to Fort Wayne to find restaurateurs with established businesses in order to try to sell KFC franchises to them.
It established Fort Boise in 1834 ( in present-day southwestern Idaho ) to compete with the American Fort Hall, to the east.
A second settlement was established on the north coast in 1504 called Puerto Real near modern Fort Liberte-which in 1578 was relocated to a nearby site and renamed Bayaha.
His Columbia River trading post at Fort Astoria ( established in April 1811 ) was the first United States community on the Pacific coast.
The Dutch established Fort Zeelandia in 1624 and defeated the local tribes in 1635.
A series of trading posts was established by both the British and French, such as Fort Oswego in 1722 and Fort Rouillé ( Toronto ) in 1750.
D ' Esnambuc claimed Martinique for French King Louis XIII and the French " Compagnie des Îles de l ' Amérique " ( Company of the American Islands ), and established the first European settlement at Fort Saint-Pierre ( now St. Pierre ).
In 1958, a museum was established in the Ninth Fort.
The 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix opened Kentucky to colonial settlement and established the Ohio River as a southern boundary for American Indian territory.
In Senegal, trading posts were established in Gorée, St. Louis, Rufisque, Portudal and Joal and the upper valley of the Senegal River, including Fort St. Joseph Galam was in the 18th century a French engine of trafficking in Senegambia.
Fort Ebey, named for the Colonel, was established in 1942 on the west side of the central part of the island, just northwest of Coupeville.
* June 20 – Fort Fred Steele is established to protect what is at this time the western terminus of the Union Pacific Railway, near the present-day Sinclair, Wyoming.
* 1824 – The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson's Bay Company.
* February 18 – Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay, thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
* Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838 Trail of Tears.
* The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson's Bay Company.
In 1843, the Hudson's Bay Company established Fort Camosun at nearby Vancouver Island.
As a result, the Amphibious Scout and Raider School was established in 1942 at Fort Pierce, Florida.
0.201 seconds.