There are various accounts of how many people died, but the most common number, according to various ledgers of the time, is that 225 people died from the 1849 cholera outbreak in Dayton. The Great ...

The pastoral scene of Chouteau's Pond when it was a refuge on the edge of town. La Petite Riviere (later called Mill Creek) was dammed for a flour mill shortly after St. Louis was ...

July, August and September 1849 saw cholera rapidly spread through the city, eventually claiming more than 1,860 victims. On one day alone the Rev James Sibree, chaplain to Hull General Cemetery ...

This fear may have attributed Jefferson City's so-called cholera epidemic to a single steamship: the James Monroe. It was forced to dock at the city wharf on May 10, 1849, because many crew ...

The cholera epidemic of 1849 lasted six weeks and killed at least 500 people by May, according to the Texas State Historical Association. According to Promises to Keep, a history of the Sisters of ...

Exactly 150 years ago London was in the grip of a cholera epidemic but within ... out his water theory at conferences in 1849 and 1853 but the medical establishment was still not convinced. During ...