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US $7.2 million check used to pay for Alaska. Issued on August 1, 1868 and worth around $140 million today.
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...k_fullsize.jpg
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...171#post161163
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...2978#post77214
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...4061#post79263
Typo - The check was for $7.2 million, not .2 as indicated.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-d...hase-of-alaska
Thank you, Marv. The system interprets the dollar sign as a part of the code every time at the beginning of a string.
Doesn't seem folly to me...
$12 million paid for California, and $5 million for Florida. But the weirdest deal of them all was paying France $15 million to acquire 2 million kilometers of land. This area today covers 15 States with Louisiana on top.
And the Platte Purchase, Northwest lands of Missouri along the Missouri River, settled in Treaty of Chicago. https://www.potawatomiheritage.com/e...hase-missouri/
I drive through it almost every day, there is history here, wall to wall..