Locust Level

Locust Level was built around 1735 in Cumberland County, Virginia, USA. Estate agents say this stately frame home has on the first floor, a living room with a fireplace, formal dining room with a fireplace, kitchen, den with a fireplace, entrance foyer, large office utility room and a full bath. This floor retains the original wide flooring chair rail, wainscoting, mantels, high ceilings and large door locks. There are two stair cases to the second floor. This floor offers four bedrooms, three with fireplaces and wood floors. The master bedroom has an attached master bath with a whirlpool tub.

Foster-Meeker Homestead

The Foster-Meeker Homestead is probably the oldest home in Westhampton Beach. It is an 18th-Century Cape Cod-style house built in 1735. It was moved to its present location last year and is the first village structure listed on the New York State and national historical registers. Efforts are currently being made to preserve the structure. This will be a costly undertaking.

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First opera in America

On February 18, 1735, the first recorded opera was presented in America. "Flora, or Hob in the Well," by Colley Cibber (1671-1757) and John Hippesley (d 1748) was performed in a court room in present-day Charleston, South Carolina.

Woodruff House NJ USA

Woodruff House in New Jersy is open to the public. The house was originally built in 1735. More details here.

America

America 1735. The colony of Georgia prohibited importation of African slaves and rum. Settlement there spread to Augusta and John Wesley formed his first Methodist society. A French settlement appeared at Vincennes, Indiana near the Ohio River and St Genevieve on the Missouri River. In New England a Scarlet fever epidemic began. Botulism discovered in German sausages. England is distilling a gallon of gin for every man, woman and child in the nation.

Ruth Dunster

Ruth Dunster, daughter of Henry and Martha Dunster, died in 1735 at 1 year, 9 months. In her grave, her sister Elizabeth, age 4 months, lies next to her. A grave nearby reveals another tragically young death and refers to a larger historical context: "Beneath this tomb rests the remains of Mr. Jon Hughes, only son of Mr. John Hughes of Norwich in Connecticut. He died in his Country's Cause July 25th AD 1775 in Ye 21st Year of his Age." Henry Dunster was the son of Henry Dunster, Harvard's founding president who is buried nearby.

Winchester, VA

This marker is found in Winchester, Virginia, USA, and was erected in 2003. It refers to Lord Fairfax arriving in America 'about 1735'. For more see here.

Philadelphia

This is the Pennsylvania State House, Philadelphia, USA, where the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence and where, a decade later, delegates to the "Philadelphia Convention" formulated the Constitution. The Pennsylvania Assembly, which had been meeting in homes and taverns, moved into the building in September 1735. It was considered the most ambitious public building in the colonies.

American founder

Button Gwinnett was born in 1735 and died in a duel in 1777. Apart from the fact his father was a Welsh clergyman (hence the surname) his claim to fame is that he was a signer of the American Declaration of Independence. See more here.

John Adams

This is John Adams who was born on October 30 and went on to become the second American president (and is not to be confused with John Quincy Adams, the sixth president).