“Indian Rock” a natural amphitheater near present-day Foster Road and 100th Avenue in Lents. It was a long-established location for ceremonial activities until some of the young white settlers took potatoes and tomatoes as weapons and threw them at the dancing Indians. The Indians never ...
Joshua Z. Cozens and Asa Brown are known, from various old records, to have been residents of Salem, but they are not known to have provided any statements relating to the fictional writings of their neighbor, Solomon Spalding. James Harper was a member of the original family of settlers ...
The first known settlers of the Hawaiian Islands were Polynesian voyagers who arrived sometime in the eighth century, and in the early 18th century the first American traders came to Hawaii to exploit the islands’ sandalwood, which was much valued in China at the time. In the 1830s...