When both countries signed the Louisiana Purchase treaty on May 2, 1803 (backdated to April 30), the boundaries of the ...

Art: II In the cession made by the preceeding article are included the adjacent Islands belonging to Louisiana all public ... and the 30th of April 1803. The Government of the United States ...

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 41: 11 July to 15 November 1803 Thomas Jefferson The Louisiana Purchase dominates the months covered in this volume. Jefferson departs for Monticello to enjoy a ...

Marie)—today’s Central Business District. Once news broke about the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, property owners all around ...

“It is New Orleans.” The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 eased Jefferson’s concerns about foreign influence, but it didn’t eliminate them. Jefferson believed that America’s future lay in the ...

Two archaeologists in Platte City, Missouri, have uncovered human pioneer remains from a key period in early American history ...

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California Gold Rush is considered by many historians to be the most significant event of the first half of the ...

Arkansas’s northern boundary was shaped in 1813 when Arkansas County was formed within the Mississippi Territory. When ...

The two states agreed to a landswap to ensure that a Dallas-area water district’s pump station lies wholly within Texas.

Most of the U.S. EEZ hasn’t been explored. In 1803, with the territory from the Louisiana Purchase newly in hand, Jefferson instructed expedition leader Lewis to “take observations on ...

Louisiana Purchase State Park in east Arkansas is one ... A treaty with France in 1803 stated the United States would purchase the vast tract of 830,000 square miles for $15 million.

It is where the Louisiana Purchase transfer ceremonies took place in 1803 and where the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson decision was given in 1892. Much more has happened here, but since 1908 ...