~North:
1. In 1802, in Dunghill, Pennsylvania, 16 city fathers got together and burned 42 Delaware savages in an open oil pool, to get rid of both the unwanted oil and the native interlopers who wanted their land back.
2. In 1807 on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusettes, an impoverished Irish immigrant built a bridge which would, almost 2 centuries later, provide Ted Kennedy with a site at which to drown his presidential aspirations (along with Mary Jo Kopechne)
South:
1. In Selma, Alabama, on July 4, 1805, plantation owner Farquar Wilkinson bought the great-great-great grandfather of Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. In Okeefenokee, Georgia in 1817, Andrew Jackson decided he was going to make a run for president and began his campaign of genocide against the Seminoles and Creeks.
2006-11-28 14:00:08
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answer #1
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answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7
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