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1846 ‐J. Roebling: Suspension bridge<br />

Pittsburgh<br />

‐Construction of Brook Farm<br />

Phalanstere and fire<br />

‐A.J. Downing: The Horticulturist<br />

(magazine)<br />

1847 ‐Madison Square Park in New York<br />

opened to <strong>the</strong> public<br />

‐Brigham Young: Mormon Winter<br />

Quarter<br />

‐Rural Cemetery Act, New York<br />

‐J. Paxton: Birkenhead Park, Liverpool<br />

1848 ‐Icaria foundation, (Denton County)<br />

Texas<br />

‐ American Pomological Society<br />

foundation<br />

‐Foundation of Salt Lake City<br />

‐Starrucca Viaduct, Lanesboro,<br />

Pennsylvania<br />

1849 ‐San Francisco Plantation House,<br />

Garyville, Louisiana (1849‐1856)<br />

‐C. Ellet: Wheeling Suspension Bridge,<br />

Brownsville, Pennsylvania<br />

‐A. Hotchkiss: Bellefontaine<br />

Cemetery, Saint Louis<br />

1850 ‐Icarians moved to Nauvoo, Illinois<br />

‐ Railroads active: 8751 miles<br />

‐Wabash and Erie Canal<br />

‐A. Hotchkiss: Chippianock Cemetery,<br />

Rock Island, Illinois<br />

‐A.J. Downing: The Architecture of<br />

Country Houses<br />

1851 ‐J. Paxton: Crystal Palace, London<br />

‐J. Roebling: Niagara bridge<br />

‐First Act Park, New York<br />

‐A.J. Downing: Washington Mall<br />

‐A.J. Davis: Locust Grove (S. Morse<br />

House), New York<br />

1852 ‐Belle Grove Plantation, Iberville<br />

Parish, Louisiana (1852‐1857)<br />

‐Icarians founded new colony in<br />

Corning, Iowa (1852‐1870)<br />

1853 ‐New York Crystal Palace<br />

‐San Francisco Plantation House,<br />

Garyville, Louisiana (1853‐1856)<br />

‐Raritan Bay Union, Perth Amboy,<br />

New Jersey, foundation: utopian<br />

community (1853‐1860)<br />

‐A.J. Davis: Lewellyn Park first project,<br />

West Orange, New York<br />

‐D. Burnham (1846‐1912) architect<br />

‐A.T.Agate (1812‐1846) Ɨ painter<br />

‐Buffalo Bill (1846‐1917) pioneer<br />

‐J. A. Etzler (1791‐1846) Ɨ utopian<br />

author<br />

‐G. Rapp (1757‐1847) Ɨ founder of<br />

Harmonist<br />

‐Thomas Cole (1801‐1848) Ɨ<br />

painter<br />

‐E.A. Poe (1809‐1849) Ɨ author<br />

‐A. Gallatin (1761‐1849) Ɨ<br />

politician<br />

‐ Population 23.191.876<br />

‐J. W. Root (1850.1891) architect<br />

‐J.M.W. Turner (1775‐1851) Ɨ<br />

<strong>landscape</strong> painter<br />

‐A.J. Downing (1815‐1852) Ɨ<br />

<strong>landscape</strong> designer<br />

‐Calamity Jane (1852‐1903)<br />

pioneer<br />

1854 ‐D. Phyfe (1770‐1854) Ɨ<br />

cabinetmaker<br />

‐H. Melville: Typee<br />

‐Mexican‐American War (1846‐1848)<br />

‐The Smithsonian Institution was<br />

founded<br />

‐N. Longworth: The Cultivation of <strong>the</strong><br />

Grape and Manufacture of Wine<br />

‐E. Cabet: Manifesto “Allon en Icarie”,<br />

for <strong>the</strong> foundation of Icaria, Texas<br />

California Gold Rush (1848‐55)<br />

‐K. Marx and F. Engels: Manifesto of<br />

<strong>the</strong> Communist Party<br />

‐Z. Taylor is <strong>the</strong> President of Usa<br />

(1849‐1850)<br />

‐N. Hawthorne: The Scarlett Letter<br />

‐M. Fillmore is <strong>the</strong> President of Usa<br />

(1850‐1853)<br />

‐ H. Melville: White‐Jacket<br />

‐H. Melville: Moby‐Dick, or The Whale<br />

‐The western union company is<br />

founded<br />

‐H. Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin<br />

‐Anti‐Tom literature<br />

‐N. Hawthorne: The Blithdale Romance<br />

‐F.L. Olmsted: Walks and Talks of an<br />

American Farmer in England<br />

‐A Gaudì (1853‐1926) architect ‐F. Pierce is <strong>the</strong> President of Usa (1853‐<br />

1857)<br />

‐First elevator, New York<br />

‐H.D. Thoreau: Walden, or life in <strong>the</strong><br />

woods<br />

‐The Republican Party was founded<br />

1855 La Reunion, Dallas, Texas,<br />

foundation: utopian experiment<br />

(1855‐1860)<br />

1856 ‐End of Icaria Nauvoo, Illinois (1856‐<br />

1860)<br />

‐Icarians moved to Cheltenham,<br />

Missouri (1856‐1875)<br />

‐A. Hotchkiss: Plan of Lake Forest,<br />

Chicago<br />

1857 ‐F. L. Olmsted: Central Park, New<br />

York<br />

‐American Institute of Architects was<br />

founded in New York<br />

‐A.J. Davis and C. Vaux: Lewellyn<br />

Park, West Orange, New Jersey<br />

‐R. Mills (1781‐1855) Ɨ architect<br />

‐L.H. Sullivan (1856‐1924)<br />

architect<br />

‐E. Cabet (1788‐1856) Ɨ<br />

philosopher and utopian socialist<br />

‐E. Basile (1857‐1931) architect<br />

‐W. Whitman: Leaves of Grass<br />

‐G. Innes: The Lackawanna Valley<br />

‐J. Buchanan is <strong>the</strong> President of Usa<br />

(1857‐1861)<br />

‐C. Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal<br />

‐C. Vaux: Villas and Cottages

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