{"title":"Epilogue","authors":"Gwynne Tuell Potts","doi":"10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.003.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.003.0019","url":null,"abstract":"George and Serena Croghan’s son, St. George Croghan, inherited Locust Grove and moved from New York with his young family in hopes of farming the estate. He failed, and after mortgaging the place, returned to New York to spend years litigating his wife’s inheritance. With no means of support, he joined the Confederate Army in 1861 and was killed that November. The Croghan homestead was rented, then sold, and today stands as a National Historic Landmark museum open to the public.\u0000The enslaved Croghan workforce was freed in 1856 by the terms of Dr. Croghan’s will, and although Stephen Bishop and the slave guides eventually opened a hotel for black tourists who visited Mammoth Cave, the farm’s enslaved people moved to the city and disappeared from the history of the place where most of them had been born.","PeriodicalId":161533,"journal":{"name":"George Rogers Clark and William Croghan","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129371212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detroit","authors":"Crystel Pinçonnat, Camilo José Vergara","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvr7fcjh.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvr7fcjh.11","url":null,"abstract":"En avril 1995, Camilo José Vergara, sociologue et photographe américain, fait scandale en publiant un article dans la revue Metropolis ; son texte ouvre une polémique que répercuteront plusieurs grands journaux et magazines nationaux. Il y développe un projet pour la ville de Détroit, une proposition qu’il présente comme « stimulante pour l’imaginaire ». Il part d’un constat simple : À Détroit, pour la première fois dans l’histoire, un grand nombre de gratte-ciel construits pour durer des siècles sont peu à peu laissés à l’abandon ; tout un ensemble de structures à demi désertées s’élève comme un no man’s land vertical derrière des terrains en friche [...] Ce spectacle lui suggère une idée : [...] une douzaine de pâtés de maison au sein desquels sont situés les gratte-ciel de l’ère antérieure à la crise de 1929 [pourraient être] stabilisés et conservés tels quels comme ruines : une Acropole américaine. Nous pourrions transformer environ une centaine de buildings en un grand parc national, une aire de jeux et de merveilles. Grâce à son projet, Vergara souhaite transformer le regard des gens. Plutôt que les passants détournent le regard de ces gratte-ciel, symboles de l’échec d’un certain modèle de développement, il voudrait qu’ils « apprécient leur beauté » et y voient « quelque chose de sublime », une « Monument Valley urbaine ». En 1995 Vergara, qui travaille sur la ville depuis une vingtaine d’années, vient de publier The New American Ghetto. L’ouvrage réunit des articles et des photographies et répond à une nouvelle perspective : « tandis qu’à la fin du XIX et au début du XX siècle, les photographes étaient payés pour photographier la croissance phénoménale des villes,","PeriodicalId":161533,"journal":{"name":"George Rogers Clark and William Croghan","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130790593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Burr","authors":"Gwynne Tuell Potts","doi":"10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Before the Corps of Discovery had broken camp on the Missouri River on 11 July 1804, the vicepresident of the United States had mortally wounded Washington’s former treasury secretary. William Croghan knew them both. Following the conclusion of his term as vicepresident, Burr made a tour of the South and West, correctly assuming his days in the capital had come to an end.\u0000In Louisville, Croghan, George Rogers Clark, Ohio senator Jonathan Dayton, and others had successfully won more than $100,000 from Indiana’s legislature to build a canal around the Falls of the Ohio. Burr, who was gathering a quasi-military unit at Blennerhassett’s Island, was keenly interested in the project, as the success of his project depended upon the navigation of the river. Burr dined at Locust Grove and joined his old friend’s canal company. Was it at Locust Grove that Clark and Croghan learned of Burr’s treason?","PeriodicalId":161533,"journal":{"name":"George Rogers Clark and William Croghan","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115444429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Washington’s Soldier","authors":"Gwynne Tuell Potts","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvr7fcjh.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvr7fcjh.10","url":null,"abstract":"Captain William Croghan entered Valley Forge with ten thousand soldiers in December 1777 and left with Washington the following June as a major in Charles Scott’s brigade. He lived and worked with Lafayette, Steuben, Wayne, Hamilton, Burr, and Knox for six brutal months before emerging to encounter Clinton’s British army on a blistering day near Monmouth Court House, New Jersey.\u0000Reassigned to the Southern army in defense of Charleston, Croghan was one of approximately thirty-five hundred Americans who were forced to ground their arms to the tune of TheTurk’sMarchon 12 May 1780, the largest patriot defeat of the American Revolution. Released on parole with Colonel Jonathan Clark in the next spring, Croghan was assigned to Fort Pitt, but raced to take part in the battle of Yorktown, the last major military encounter of the Revolution.","PeriodicalId":161533,"journal":{"name":"George Rogers Clark and William Croghan","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128419566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Country Houses","authors":"Gwynne Tuell Potts","doi":"10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"John and Ann Rogers Clark, along with their youngest children, joined their second son, George Rogers, in Louisville early in 1785. The Clark’s eldest son and daughter remained in Virginia with their spouses, and two sons had not survived the Revolution.Settled in a massive log house, the Clarks soon hosted the marriages of two daughters: Elizabeth, to Colonel Richard Clough Anderson, and Lucy, to Major William Croghan. Youngest daughter, Fannie, followed with the first of her three weddings, but youngest son, William, would postpone marriage until his return from Mr. Jefferson’s expedition. George Rogersnever married. William spent much of his young manhood mediating his brother’s financial and legal entanglements, often spending his own income to resolve the differences. As a consequence, he sold the home he had inherited from his parents and moved with George Rogers across the Ohio, to the Indiana Territory land Virginia had provided its general as payment for the American Revolution.","PeriodicalId":161533,"journal":{"name":"George Rogers Clark and William Croghan","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129581423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Expedition","authors":"Gwynne Tuell Potts","doi":"10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Weeks before Thomas Jefferson learned he had successfully purchased Louisiana, his secretary wrote William Clark to invite him to cocaptain an exploration of the territory. The preparations for the adventure, the selection of Louisville-area young men accustomed to hard living, and the gathering of supplies consumed Clark and the area until the two captains shoved away from the Falls in a driving October rain.\u0000The Lewis and Clark Expedition is a seminal moment in the development of the United States of America, and it was Clark’s brothers and brothers-in-law who received steady, if erratic, news of the uncharted continent between 1803 and 1806. The explorers, along with their Native entourage, arrived at the homes of Jonathan Clark and William Croghan before beginning their separate treks to Washington City, where they reported their stunning findings to Thomas Jefferson.","PeriodicalId":161533,"journal":{"name":"George Rogers Clark and William Croghan","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127843040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontier Wars","authors":"Gwynne Tuell Potts","doi":"10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"George Rogers Clark was Virginia’s western military commander from 1778 until 1783. As such, it was his responsibility to remedy the ongoing Native war waged against Kentucky’s settlers, although the actions that fed this war originated as far away as North Carolina and Fort Pitt. Boone lost two sons to the violence, a peaceful village of Christian Delawares was massacred by irate Pennsylvania militiamen, and a widelyadmired frontier colonel was literally baked by revenge-minded Delawares in a horrific chain of events recorded by William Croghan at Fort Pitt.\u0000The frontier terror led Clark to mount two campaigns into Ohio to quash the territory’s largest Indian population centers, leading Joseph Brant to write from Detroit, “I have been very uneasy since we heard the News of the Shawanese Misfortune who fell into the hands of the White Savage Virginians.”","PeriodicalId":161533,"journal":{"name":"George Rogers Clark and William Croghan","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127368580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wilkinson","authors":"Gwynne Tuell Potts","doi":"10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00197253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00197253","url":null,"abstract":"Casual readers of American history may assume the United States enjoyed relative peace between the end of the Revolution and the War of 1812, but in fact, the West remained in turmoil and Kentucky lay at the center of British, French, and Spanish intrigue. Kentuckians struggled with significant decisions leading to statehood: should they remain part of Virginia, join the United States, or become an independent entity aligned with another nation?\u0000Navigation rights on the Mississippi River were at the heart of Kentuckians’ concerns, and as long as the federal government refused to negotiate the matter with Spain, most farmers initially were reluctant to commit themselves and their children to land-locked futures. George Rogers Clark, with the encouragement of his former soldiers, agreed to lead a contingent of settlers to form a colony on the Mississippi. Going so far as to ask Spain for permission to do so (as did Sevier, Steuben, and others), Clark unnerved the federal government.","PeriodicalId":161533,"journal":{"name":"George Rogers Clark and William Croghan","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116635939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William and Lucy Clark Croghan","authors":"Gwynne Tuell Potts","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvr7fcjh.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvr7fcjh.20","url":null,"abstract":"William Croghan, Irish immigrant, British and Continental Army officer, surveyor, and community leader, died at his home in September 1822. He left behind a large family and distinguished farm, more than fifty thousand acres scattered across several states, and the admiration of a nation. His widow, Lucy Clark, lived another sixteen years, much of it as witness to the tragedies of her children, but she endured, as a frontier woman ought, and welcomed Andrew Jackson, James Monroe, Meriwether Lewis, and, of course, Zachary Taylor to her home.\u0000Three children married brilliantly; son, George, a War of 1812 hero, married New York’s Serena Livingston, niece to Robert. Eldest daughter, Ann, married Thomas S. Jesup, newly appointed quartermaster general of the US Army; and son, William, married Mary O’Hara, one of the nation’s wealthiest heiresses. Lucy lived to see Locust Grove secured by eldest son, Dr. John Croghan, and died peacefully in the home she had known for more than forty years.","PeriodicalId":161533,"journal":{"name":"George Rogers Clark and William Croghan","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114443585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wilkinson","authors":"M. Wilkinson","doi":"10.1097/00007611-191109000-00004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00007611-191109000-00004","url":null,"abstract":"Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible.","PeriodicalId":161533,"journal":{"name":"George Rogers Clark and William Croghan","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133725465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}