-- for information on her upcoming schedule of programming. here is toctive teach people how a unique american. culture was created through the , african,f european and indigenous peoples cultures. housed frontier firms on the 16 40's. people are wanting to have a place of their own, whether they be english or irish or german root second and third sons are going to leave. >> i am costumed interpreter on the scotch irish farm. the type. is 1840.imeframe here

i'm a former as well as a weaver. people startthese leaving ireland to come to america for a better life. economically if the time, this was a strong farm. he was not the wealthiest around. everyone is making lots of money in the early years but in the depression, things start going back really quick. a lot people ended up in philadelphia for the strong ties with the limiting trade. being farmers, you go south on the quaid ragan road -- widen road. >> we're in the 1740's american settlement also known as the backcountry of the american colonies. marriedecially, and get

-- in comparison to the old world it was very different. climate is very different, harsher summers and winters, which would affect your crops. this also differs in that it is , which is very different especially if you are coming from ireland where they do not have as many trees and would have been making their homes out of stone opposed to log. so using the materials that is available. another big thing would be the kitchen garden that we have. cropsould have included that had come over from europe, and the kitchen garden would have been a style that would have been euros 10 europe as well. andlso have corn beans squash. this was not an influence from the old world, it was an influence for the american indians they were growing all in the same amount the corn, beans,

squash together. the first of a two-part series on the front to culture missourian -- museum. you can watch this and other american artifacts anytime on our website. this year c-span is touring cities across the country, next to a look at a recent visit to santa rosa, california. you're watching american history tv. terms of property damage and life lost per capita, no town in america had ever been as affected by an earthquake is santa rosa was in 1906. it was generally known to the population of the world as the

san francisco earthquake and fire. got shuffled aside, but the damage here was absolutely staggering. died inny people had san francisco per capita as in santa rosa there would have been 75,000 dead and santa rosa the time of the earthquake was 52 years old, from the time they were founded in the had become a very prosperous tiled by 1900 because in terms of your the california towns it had the railroad that had been here for 30 years. they had to railroads in october 3. -- was the farm town for a very important cultural area that was very diverse. hops were a huge crop here.

the chicken industry, apples, tobacco, it was the shipping point. there were canneries here. forward-looking town with a lot of prospects. place06 earthquake took just before dawn. it was 5:12 a.m. people were people like bakers and up and around, but not many other people. it just devastated downtown. what happened was we had been really smart in the 1880's because we had a brickyard, we were coming along, and we made our own brick and we made them out of soil along the creeks. it turned out to not a good -- to not be good. the town had burned two or three times in the time it was a shack

town. they decreed that downtown buildings would be built from brick. this was the brick they built them of. it did not hold. buildings were made of brick, and they just fell in on themselves. that is where most of the people died. 100 people died them at least, that we know of in this earthquake. the immediate reaction was that people were horrified. there was a group of letters written by a woman named jesse logan. she talks about walking downtown and he the dead bodies in the wreckage and seeing the devastation to the community. health cave in from outside, and one particular man who got his son who was visiting here from andas and drove to a bank

wrote a check for $5,000 and gave it to people to clean up and to get the bodies out. the money that was left he divided among the churches to help them. a store that is now a barnes & noble got some goods out and set up a trunk sale on the sidewalk and word do business in -- and would do business by selling merchandise from there. they were rebuilding. there were two downtown those days because the railroad square was part of the downtown that survived. behind mene that was that was call the empire building which was a big welding in those years it was built in

1904. it was badly damaged but it came back. just down the street to the mailer five was the building. it survived both earthquakes. and out of the railroad tracks there is a stone building, one of our signature stone buildings that were built by stonemasons in the early 1900s. , and ise western hotel now a number of different things and --ng a copy house coffee house and beauty parlor. or what won'ture gave way, but it was replaced and it is still there and how does this earthquake shakes santa rosa? santa rosa, again. --ore the 19 all caps six 1906 earthquake the downtown from where much what

we are now to the railroad depot, two blocks. the way it changed is because of the automobile. earthquake gave the town a chance to redesign itself for the automobiles which was soon. there was a man named frank doyle who was the paternalistic there of santa rosa in early 1900s. he went to every merchant in town and talked them into giving several feet of their frontage soorder to widen the street they would be adaptable to the automobile. it shows a greater deal of foresight. the town became out of the apt toake was much more be able to be able to be a modern city by 1907 standards.

other cities, looking at what santa rosa was doing were impressed and one particularly who referred to santa rosa as the plucky is the town on the coast. ofhink that was the attitude we are going to get this done, and they did. >> find out where c-span's cities to her is going next online at c-span.org. you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. q&a, formern senator and presidential candidate gary hart on his new book, comparing our present government to the republic he says our founders intended. >> the founders used the language of the agent republic, greece and rome, and warned against corruption.