Saturday, November 6, 2010

The Washington Republican says . . .

. . . Hon. Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior, has authorized Mr. Newton, Superintendent of the Agricultural Division, to use the ground enclosed along Ninth street, in front of the Patent Office building, in experimenting on the cultivation of cotton.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

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