1860s Quotes

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s. - L. Neil Smith

The 1860s-era house, which has about 21 rooms, had fallen into disrepair over the years. It had been split into several apartments, and police found a methamphetamine lab in one of the apartments two years ago. The museum plans to sell fudge made with recipes from the now-closed Arnold's Candies of Peru. At his shows, Porter gave away boxes of the candy as presents. - Cole Porter

She says, blending the musical style of the 1860s with a more modern feel. - Kate Fisher

Jackson's trip stands at the cusp of major change in the United States for transportation... To a great extent, he was still traveling through a 19th-century America that hadn't changed much since the 1860s or so. - Dayton Duncan

For a long time we've had a very important collection of Monet works from every decade of his career from the 1860s to the 1920s, but what we were missing was an exceptionally fine example of his latest decade in extraordinary condition and quality... This painting gives us that. - James Cuno

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment. - Galen Rowell

Back in the 1860s no one wanted to eat lobster. - Glenn Jones