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World History of Georgetown

1720 French fur traders reach the Ohio River Valley

1730 English traders reach the Ohio River Valley

1739 Explorer Gaspard de Lery wrote about the Indian petroglyphs

1742 Birth of Andrew Poe

1747 Birth of Adam Poe in MD

1749 Celeron de Bienville claimed the Ohio Valley for France

1753 George Washington’s trip to Ft Duquesne (passed Georgetown)

1754 French and Indian War Began

1760 French and Indian War End

1770 George Washington canoed by Georgetown on 21 Oct

1765 John Reardon, first permanent settler in Georgetown

1775 Revolutionary War Began

1775 Andrew Poe enlisted as a private

1776 Adam Poe volunteered.

1776 John Reardon entered Army, served with Ensign Andrew Poe

1777 Gen Hand wrote Rordon’s Bottom manned by one officer and 15 men.

1777 Major Henry Taylor – Reardon’s Bottom “chief of the old forts”

1778 Major Jasper Ewing “one canoe at Rairdon’s Bottom”

1779 Gen Lachlan McIntosh “kept small party of 13th VA Reg at Reardon’s Bottom

1780 Benoni Dawson purchased 212 acres – patent “The Bone of Contention”

1781 Poe brothers hand-to hand combat with Wyandot Indians

1781 Revolutionary War End

1785 Point of Beginning – completion of survey of west boundary of PA-VA

1787 Pittsburgh Academy founded (Pitt)

1792 James Clark killed by Indians.

1793 Georgetown plat laid out by Benoni Dawson

1795 Abrillar Blackmore oldest Stone in Georgetown Cemetery

1794 Ferry – first reference moving troops to meet Gen Anthony Wayne

1802 First Post Office (second in Beaver Co)

1802 First licensed hotel

1803 Lewis and Clark Expedition spent the night in Georgetown

1803 George H Loskiel, Moravian missionary, penned a poem in Georgetown

1805 Four taverns and two general stores.

1808 Zadok Cramer wrote about Georgetown in “The Navigator”

1810 Born: Capt George W Ebert

1813 Born: Capt Jacob Poe

1816 Born: Capt Adam Poe

1817 Born: Capt John S McMillin

1819 Born: Capt Thomas W Poe

1821 Born: Capt Richard Calhoon

1823 Monroe Doctrine proclaimed

1828 Born: Capt Jackman T Stockdale

1834 Born: Capt Thomas S Calhoon

1837 First command: Capt Jacob Poe str Beaver No 2

1845 Great Fire of Pittsburgh

1846 Mexican American War Began

1846 Georgetown steamboat men working lower Mo River

1846 Capt John Calhoon drowned in Marietta

1848 Mexican American War End

1850 First election of borough officers in Georgetown

1850 Death Capt Joseph MC Calhoon died of cholera in Alton, IL

1851 Capt Adam Poe (str Financier) on Osage River

1854 Capt Adam Poe ( str Financier No 2) on Kansas River

1855 Capt Thomas W Poe (str Georgetown) sunk on Lower Mo River

1855 The Farmers High Schoold founded (PSU)

1858 Capt Jackman T Stockdale (str Admiral) on Lower Mo River

1859 Str Clara Poe built

1861 Civil War Began

1861 Capt Thomas W Poe commanded str Clara Poe

1861 Capt George W Ebert commanded str Kenton

1861 Capt Thomas S Calhoon owned str Horizon

1861 Capt John S McMillin commanded str Silver Wave

1863 str Horizon collided with str Moderator at Vicksburg

1865 Pres Abraham Lincoln assassinated

1865 Str Clara Poe burned by rebels on the Cumberland River

1865 Civil War End

1862 Montana Gold Rush Began

1866 Capt Thomas W Poe (str Amelia Poe) docked at Ft Benton, MT

1867 Capt Thomas W Poe (str Amelia Poe) docked at Ft Benton, MT

1867 Capt Jackman T Stockdale (str Ida Stockdale) docked at Ft Benton

1867 Capt George W Ebert ((str Yorktown) docked at Ft Benton

1868 Capt Thomas W Poe (str Amelia Poe) sunk near Oswego, MT

1868 Capt George W Ebert ((str Yorktown) docked at Ft Benton

1868 Capt Thomas S Calhoon (str Ida Stockdale) docked at Ft Benton

1868 Capt Jackman T Stockdale (str Sallie) docked at Ft Benton

1869 Str Mollie Ebert built.

1869 Str Nick Wall built

1869 Capt Thomas S Calhoon (str Ida Stockdale) docked at Ft Benton

1869 Nancy Ann (Poe) Ebert wrote Mo River journal

1869 Capt George W Ebert ((str Mollie Ebert) reached Cow Island

1869 Capt Thomas W Poe (str Nick Wall) reached Cow Island

1869 Capt Jackman T Stockdale (str Sallie) docked at Ft Benton

1869 First Continental RR (golden spike at Promontory, UT)

1869 Montana Gold Rush End

1870 Capt Thomas S Calhoon (str Ida Stockdale) docked at Ft Benton

1870 Capt Thomas W Poe (str Nick Wall) reached Cow Island

1870 Capt Thomas W Poe (str Nick Wall) sunk near Helena, AK

1870 Georgetown Census 297

1871 Great Chicago Fire

1873 Panic of 1873 (depression lasted five years)

1875 First Kentucky Derby

1876 Gen Custer’s ride to death – The Battle of the Little Bighorn

1876 Centennial Exhibition in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia

1877 B&O RR Strike spread into a wide labor disturbance

1878 Pitt and Cin Packet Line (PCPL) organized

1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened

1884 Ohio River Flood

Relief provided by Capt Thomas S Calhoon (str Katie Stockdale))

1886 First May Day Celebration (Chicago epicenter)

1886 Haymarket Riot (4 May)

1889 Montana became 41^st state

1889 Johnstown Flood

1892 Str Virginia launched

1893 Panic of 1893

1895 US Open inaugural event

1900 Georgetown Census 270

1900 Boxer Rebellion

1903 First Wright brothers flight

1908 First Ford Model-T

1909 PCPL forced into receivership

1910 Str Virginia parked in a cornfield.

1911 First Indianapolis 500

1913 Sixteen Amendment established income tax

1914 Ludlow Massacre striking coal miners killed in CO

1915 Lusitania sunk

1917 WW I Began for US

1918 WW I End

1921 Str Virginia dismantled

1924 Baseball game Georgetown versus Honus Wagner and his All-Stars

1924 J Edgar Hoover appointed head of Bureau of Investigation

1933 21st Amendment ended prohibition

1937 Golden Gate Bridge opened

1939 WW II Began Germany invaded Poland

1945 WW II End Japan ceased resistance.

1950 Georgetown Ferry cased operation. After 150 years.

2000 Georgetown Census 182

2006 Recovered Nancy Ann (Poe) Ebert journal

2010 Georgetown Census 174

Steamboat History of Georgetown.

1809 Birth Capt Andrew Poe

1809 Birth Capt John Calhoon

1810 Birth Capt George W Ebert

1811 First steamboat on the Ohio – Pittsburgh to New Orleans

1813 Birth Capt Jacob Poe

1813 Birth Capt James H Calhoon

1814 Birth Capt George Washington Ebert

1816 Birth Capt Adam Poe

1817 Birth Capt John Smith McMillin

1818 Birth Nancy Ann Poe

1818 Birth Capt Milton Calhoon

1819 Birth Capt Thomas Washington Poe

1820 Birth Capt George Groshorn Calhoon

1822 Birth Capt Thomas Dawson Calhoon

1823 Birth Capt Joseph MC Calhoon

1823 Death of Andrew Poe Rev War Vet

1828 Birth Capt Jackman Taylor Stockdale

1834 Birth Capt Thomas S Calhoon

1837 First command Capt Jacob Poe (str Beaver )

1838 Death of Adam Poe Rev War Vet

1846 DeathCapt John Calhoon drowned at Marietta

1851 Capt Adam Poe (str Financier) on Osage River

1854 Capt Adam Poe (str Financier No 2) on Kansas River

1855 Capt Thomas W Poe (str Georgetown) sunk on Lower Mo River

1855 DeathCapt Joseph MC Calhoon (str Golden Gate) of cholera in Alton, IL