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Websites for more information about the world of The Women of Ayredale House
Resources for Violet
- Lister Germ Theory
- History of the Cotton Gin
- Origin of the Cupcake (Amelia Simmons)
- Ice Houses
- Electric Christmas Lights
- Tinker
Resources for Rosie
- Buffalo Gals– distasteful term because it referred to the dancing girls who performed in dives of New York
- Calvary in 1880–a mounted force of US army by act of Congress in 1861
- Forestry
- Derringer–a small gun invented by Henry Derringer
- Detective Agency–started by Pinkerton a Scottish emigrant
- Glacier–moving ice, changing land patterns
- Gold Rush–James W. Marshall found tiny pieces of gold in a streambed, Jan. 1, 1848
- Grapevine–how did the idiom ‘through the grapevine’ get started?
- Industrial Revolution–produce goods that used to made by hand and now are machine produced, 1st from 1750-1850, 2nd from 1850-1914
- Lion Head Rock image via SummitPost
- Livery vs Stable–run by hostler
- Lumberjills–no evidence found for the origin of the name
- Orphan Train–a welfare program, carried thousands of children to the midwest
- Territory to Statehood – How the statehood process works
- Trains–turning them around to travel the other way
- United States Marshals–One of the oldest law enforcement agencies,1789
- United States Mint–first federal agency to employ women, the federal assayer was James P. Kimball of Pennsylvania appointed by President Cleveland Roosevelt in 1881
- Wedding Dress for Rosie–tan full-length dress with fringe and red roses on the collar, cuffs, and the front pleats
- Woman Steamboat Captain
Resources for Fiona
- American Quarter House– Arabian Horse bred with western mustang
- Barbed Wire-used to control cattle
- Homestead Act–land available in the west
- Water Pump-powered by wind
Resources for Sarah
- Bow Street Runners – police in England in the 1800s
- Carriages in the Victorian Era
- Chocolate Pot
- Christmas Tree Origins
- The Mint by King Henry VIII
- Moseley Tub
- National Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1880 in LIverpool
- St. James Park and the Milkmaids
- Whiteleys Department Store
