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Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Postcard showing a large fortification comprised of multiple buildings in the background and a cobblestone street with horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground. Charles C. Myers identifies the complex as the London Tower where kings and queens were imprisoned.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “You have often heard of London Tower, and I doubt not you naturally supposed it was some large edifice towering far into the sky–but not so. About the year 1078 there was built a stone building 137 x 132 ft with walls 90 ft high and 15 ft thick. This was built to use as a fort and was called London Tower, but it is now known as the White Tower–being whitewashed, since then from time to time there has been other buildings added to the place until what is now known as London Tower is a group of buildings covering about 130 acres of ground and situated on the east bank of the Thames River. The original tower was used as a prison as well as a fort and many prisoners were confined there during the 15th to 17th centuries, including several kings and queens, many of which were decapitated. Mary, Queen of Scots, was for a while confined there previous to her execution in 1587.”