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From: Dale Cox <>
Subject: Re: [FLGADSDE] Messages
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:54:22 -0800 (PST)


I think in this case, though, the writer was suggesting that Jackson built it while he was in the field with the army. This was pretty common in Northwest Florida in later years. The old Federal road through Florida is called the "Jackson Trail" in parts of the state because residents later assumed that he blazed it. This also explains why there are countless roads in Alabama and Georgia called the "Three Notch Trail." Jackson supposedly blazed them all with three notches as well.

Dale



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From: Richard White <>
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Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:22:03 PM
Subject: Re: [FLGADSDE] Messages


I suggest, Dale, that were Old Hickory still alive you would not dare
tell HIM that! <G>

Who was President of the United States in part of 1829; all of 1830,
1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, and 1836; and part of 1837?

... and when was the arsenal built?

Florida seems to have been pretty much run by and for the Andrew Jackson
friends fun club in that era... I believe that Jackson invented it, and
it was called "the spoils system" (to the victors go the spoils).

That was very much C n C Andy Jackson's arsenal.

I rest my case on that...

and...

this is also illustrative of my more general point about not sticking
purely with strict linear thinking from point in time to point in time
in trying to find the essence of history. What actually happened is
often more complex than can be neatly synopsized in a few unqualified
statements.

RW

Dale Cox wrote:

>The arsenal, by the way, was not built by Andrew Jackson. I think the writer had it confused with either Fort Scott or Fort Gadsden.
>

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