Length. It was the only structure we know of that was here at the time when he bought the first plot of land in 1706. He expands that and eventually moves there and is known as the settlers house. When he dies in 1720, his son Charles Carroll of annapolis, papa, builds this house. Its built as a two to three story brick structure, two from the street, three from the waterfront. The waterfront is the more imposing side and its very guests often arrived via water. Charlie was sent away first to florida panhand fl flanders and then to england. Their faith and education were intertwined. It was incredibly important to papa to send his heir, his only child, to have a Roman Catholic education at the very best institutions, and that was in europe. So charlie was sent at the age of 11 and he does not return. So thats 1748 and he returns in 1765, i believe. Charl charlies education in europe was a classic education, latin and greek and finance and arithmetic and geometry and french and poetry a
Cable tv for about a week or two. It was pretty painful to live through that. And i think within a week or so dr. Bob iii decided that it did hurt the school and our Spiritual Ministry so he dropped the rule. I guess it was a few years later steven jones, the next president , apologized. I think in that apology he had the best rationale for it. In the end it wasnt about religious liberty. It was about i think im maybe paraphrasing but that we were too captive to our culture. I deally for christians and hopefully we take our faith very seriously and we want to transcenddeally for christians hopefully we take our faith very seriously and we want to transcend the world, especially what we consider to be evil in the world and we simply didnt transcend what we should have. South carolina today is in important in president ial elections because of the sequence in the primaries. Its the big one right after New Hampshire. You have iowa, New Hampshire, and then South Carolina. And those three s
The spanish in 1756. Its a place where you and your family can stroll through the grounds, talk with knowledgeable interpreters about the world of spain and its effect on the appalachain over time. In 1528, vaa rez landed in the t tampa bay area. He was looking to gather the riches that the natives, the spaniards had found in what they called the new world. That they were hoping for gold, we might think, or other valuables. That they could take back to europe. A it happened in latin america. The aztec empire. They thought north america should have those resources as well. By the time you got to tallahassee, he thought better of the expedition. He thought he missed the simply ship and they decide d theb at that point to build some crude ships like rafts and try to find their way back to new spain. Which is present day mexico. That was really the first europeans that were well documented in the area. The next person to try it was her nan doe desoto. Its really from that expedition that w
Roger williams was it founder of rhode island and also the founder of the First Baptist church in america. Williams was born in london around 160 thr3. Were not sure of which because his birth records were burned up in the great london fire. He became a chapel for one of the great pureten lords. But because he was a puriten. He fled to england, arrived in at boston in february of 1631. This is a radical idea at this time. Every country had had a state church. They all had their own state supported churches. The taxes of the people paid for it ministers and the buildings and you had to go to church or theyd fine you. Williams said the state has no role whatsoever to play in religion. Eeventually he was put on trial and convicted of sedition and ha hauracy and was going to ship back to england before he could die. So he fled through it winter around february of 1636 and walked down from what is today salem where he was then taken in by izhad friends, the wompa indians. The following spri
Cspan is touring cities across the country exploring american history. A look at our visit to salt lake city, utah. Americanatching history tv, all weekend, every weekend. A photograph of the fourth president of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints and arguably the most important historian of the first century. Goodr woodruff was a very journal keeper. He kept journals from the time he joined the church in 1833 and continued keeping them up until his death in 1898. This is his very first journal and it shows you how meticulous he was in his journal keeping. He was stand as much as an hour a day writing in his journal and for very important events he would add a little bit of decoration. Here, for example is the entry for his marriage date. As you can see here, he has decorated it with lots of filigree and other things to make it almost looked like a little marriage certificate by its self. At the end of his journal, he kept statistical accounts of what happened to him in a gi