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George Washington and Samuel Adams...
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March 14, 1795
COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, March 14, 1795
* President George Washington
* Samuel Adams
The middle of the front page is taken up with 3 Acts of Congress each signed in script type by the President; Go. Washington, one of which is authorizing the creation of a lighthouse at the entrance of Georgetown harbor, South Carolina.
Also on the front page is an Act of the Mass. legislature: "An Act for Introducing the Dollar & Its Parts as the Money of Account in this Commonwealth" signed in script type by the governor, Samuel Adams.
Page 2 has a letter from Fort Washington, Pennsylvania concerning a peace treaty with the Indians. Also a letter from Greenville regarding the Indians as well.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, wear at the margins, light foxing, good condition.
background: In the 1790s, efforts to establish a lighthouse for Georgetown Harbor began as the new federal government sought to improve navigation along the South Carolina coast, with Congress assuming responsibility for aids to navigation in 1789 and acquiring a seven-acre site on North Island in 1795 for a future beacon to guide ships into Winyah Bay. Though the lighthouse itself would not be completed until 1801, the 1790s laid the groundwork: local maritime commerce was expanding, Georgetown’s rice-exporting port needed safer passage through shifting shoals, and the donated North Island site offered ideal elevation and visibility for a coastal light. These preparatory steps—land acquisition, planning, and early federal appropriations—made the 1790s the true origin period of what later became the Georgetown Lighthouse, one of the earliest federal-era aids to navigation on the southern Atlantic coast.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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