For no particular reason whatsoever, I googled the words "honey war" in quotes. I was not looking for anything whatsoever. Just killing a couple seconds between now and lunch. Little did I know, the Honey War was a bloodless territorial dispute between Iowa and Missouri in 1939.
I wonder if Ken Burns will give us his treatment of this tense moment in US history?
Here's the conflict in a nutshell:
The Honey War was a bloodless territorial dispute in 1839 between Iowa (then a part of Wisconsin Territory) and Missouri over its border.
The dispute over a 9.5 mile wide strip running the entire length of the border was caused by unclear wording in the Missouri Constitution on boundaries, misunderstandings over the survey of the Louisiana Purchase, and a misreading of Native American treaties was to ultimately be decided by the United States Supreme Court in Iowa's favor. The decision was to affirm a nearly 30 mile jog in the nearly straight line border between in extreme southeast Iowa and northeast Missouri at Keokuk, Iowa that is now Iowa's southernmost point.
Before being settled militias from both sides faced each other at the border, a Missouri sheriff collecting taxes in Iowa was incarcerated, and three trees containing beehives were cut down.
I wonder if Ken Burns will give us his treatment of this tense moment in US history?
Here's the conflict in a nutshell:
The Honey War was a bloodless territorial dispute in 1839 between Iowa (then a part of Wisconsin Territory) and Missouri over its border.
The dispute over a 9.5 mile wide strip running the entire length of the border was caused by unclear wording in the Missouri Constitution on boundaries, misunderstandings over the survey of the Louisiana Purchase, and a misreading of Native American treaties was to ultimately be decided by the United States Supreme Court in Iowa's favor. The decision was to affirm a nearly 30 mile jog in the nearly straight line border between in extreme southeast Iowa and northeast Missouri at Keokuk, Iowa that is now Iowa's southernmost point.
Before being settled militias from both sides faced each other at the border, a Missouri sheriff collecting taxes in Iowa was incarcerated, and three trees containing beehives were cut down.
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