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Daily National Intelligencer
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Blakeley in Alabama Territory has grown rapidly in one year from one house to nearly 100 building, including warehouses, a large hotel, and a printing establishment. Significant trade: $600,000 in goods/produce deposited Dec 1817-Jun 1818, 48 vessels (4000 tons), direct from West Indies. Workers from New York; three steamboats under construction.
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One year ago there was but one house in Blakeley, in the Alabama territory—there are now nearly one hundred building. Ten large ware-houses are erected by the water side, and the largest hotel in the territory has been recently built. A very respectable printing establishment has now gone out from this city, and a paper will be printed weekly or semi-weekly, called "The Blakeley Sun and Alabama Advertiser." $600,000 dollars worth of goods and produce was deposited there from December 1817, to June 1818, and 48 vessels loaded and unloaded, making a tonnage of 4000 tons. Ships have unloaded there directly from the West Indies. One house in Boston shipped to this one place $100,000 dollars in goods, in the course of five or six months. One hundred brick makers and fifty ship carpenters left New York to work at Blakeley a short time ago. Three steam boats are now building—two to ply from Blakeley into the interior, and one of 600 tons to go to New Orleans—capital $200,000 dollars. N. Y. Columbian
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Blakeley, Alabama Territory
Event Date
December 1817 To June 1818
Outcome
$600,000 worth of goods and produce deposited; 48 vessels loaded and unloaded (4000 tons); three steamboats building with $200,000 capital
Event Details
One year ago one house in Blakeley; now nearly 100 building, 10 large warehouses erected, largest hotel in territory built, printing establishment for 'The Blakeley Sun and Alabama Advertiser' weekly or semi-weekly; ships from West Indies; Boston house shipped $100,000 goods in 5-6 months; 100 brick makers and 50 ship carpenters from New York; two steamboats to interior, one 600 tons to New Orleans