Our Village of America, honors the great story of our country from birth through the Louisiana Purchase....was it the greatest real estate deal in History? You decide.
Louis and Clark were charged by Jefferson to find a way across the Continent, no matter who ended up with this magnificent piece of land. According to my friends, Phyllis and Bernie Lang, back in 2005, when they honored the Louisiana Purchase, with their Christmas card... ( the purchase was 100 years old), they said that the most difficult part of the journey was at Great Falls, where it took Lewis and Clark 11 days to climb the 87 foot falls, with their supplies and boats. ( Fond memories remain with me of yearly Christmas cards from the Lang's, she was Phyllis Bianchi of the House of Bianchi, known for fabulous gowns!)
We have created here in Ashland , a living village as a historic reminder of our fabulously interesting history of the United States as it headed toward it's destiny as a Republic. Our Village in Ashland, which bounds,Sherborn, Holliston, and Framingham very near our location.. You can reach us from Framingham take 135 west, to Cherstnut Street, turn left, and we are just up the road. You can reach us from the Sherborn, Holliston end of town from Framingham, take 126 toward Holliston, at the top of the big hill turn right at the lights on to Eliot Street, right at the fork onto Fruit St, and at the light take a right onto Chestnut Street, we are just down the road, living in the triangle between Rt 126 and Rt 135... and as the Indians knew, this was a fertile land within the Sudbury River watershed. The Indians lived very nearby, they fished for eel in Lake Waushakum and in Farm Pond,( both are ponds), located in Framingham where the water drains from our area, into the reservoirs and streams that make up the Sudbury on its way to Boston and the Sea...
Celebrate the next anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase( in December it will be 110 years), by living here , its close to everything, shops, restaurants, hosptitals, colleges, and more, yet it is still country .... Call us today for a tour, and see the wonderful selections of townhomes, or single family we are building in the area. Prices from the $300,000's in townhomes, and around the corner in Holliston, where our Carriage House Estates is underway, we are in the $700,000's....a very beautiful place to live. Both Ashland and Holliston are such nice small towns, you can not help but love living here...I know, I have been living around here all my life....
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Louisiana Purchase
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For other uses, see Louisiana Purchase (disambiguation).
| Louisiana Purchase Vente de la Louisiane | |||||
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The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles (2,144,000 square kilometers or 529,920,000 acres) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), a total sum of 15 million dollars (around 4 cents per acre[1]), for the Louisiana territory ($236 million in 2013 dollars, less than 42 cents per acre).[2][3] The Louisiana territory encompassed all or part of 15 presentU.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River; most of North Dakota; most of South Dakota; northeastern New Mexico; northern Texas; the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans; and small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
France controlled this vast area from 1699 until 1762, the year it gave the territory to its ally Spain. Under Napoleon Bonaparte, France took back the territory in 1800 in the hope of building an empire in North America. A slave revolt in Haiti and an impending war with Britain, however, led France to abandon these plans and sell the entire territory to the United States, which had originally intended only to seek the purchase of New Orleans and its adjacent lands.
The purchase of the territory of Louisiana took place during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. At the time, the purchase faced domestic opposition as some argued that it was unconstitutional, though opposition ultimately was not widespread. Jefferson agreed that the U.S. Constitution did not contain provisions for acquiring territory, but decided to go ahead with the purchase anyway—to remove France's presence in the region and protect both U.S. trade access to the port ofNew Orleans and free passage on the Mississippi River.
