Jadon Gibson

1 week ago | themountaineagle.com | Jadon Gibson

A joint effort by Robert Fulton, Robert R. Livingston and Nicholas Roosevelt led to the first steamboat to navigate up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in 1811. Fulton is noted for inventing the Clermont, the first commercially successful steamboat. Robert R. Livingston, the minister to France during President Thomas Jefferson’s administration, was instrumental […]

1 month ago | themountaineagle.com | Jadon Gibson

Cherokee warriors assisted in the successful assault of Fort Duquesne but were attacked in what would later become Tennessee. About 15 were killed and others taken prisoner. The Cherokees retaliated by putting a blockade around Fort Loudon. Col. Byrd had to raise troops to aid those surrounded by Indians. He took it upon himself to have them build blockhouses and […]

2 months ago | themountaineagle.com | Jadon Gibson

An interesting story surfaced in 1865 about a youthful Jesse James. A governess charged with teaching and training five children in a rural Logan County, Kentucky home in the mid to late 1860’s wrote that Jesse James, nephew of her employer, also lived in the home for a time. “Jesse was about 21 years old then,” Jenny wrote in 1885, […]

2 months ago | themountaineagle.com | Jadon Gibson

Alexander Spotswood brought a keen sense of diplomacy to colonial Virginia when he arrived as the new Lieutenant Governor in 1710. He may as well have been governor because the Earl of Orkney, the formal governor, never set foot on Virginia soil even though he received half of the compensation budgeted for the office. Spotswood smartly brought evidence of his […]

Jan 22, 2025 | themountaineagle.com | Jadon Gibson

The great Shawnee war chief Cornstalk thought his people in the Ohio Territory should make peace, not war. It was in the summer of 1777, and he contemplated visiting General Andrew Lewis the following day but the majority of those present voted against the tired old warrior. “So, you choose to fight the long knives,” he chastised them. “Then you […]