My ancestors were the Spanish from the colonial days, we own large acres of property and one of my relatives has a property with a hand dug mine on it.
Some brief information about Joel Poinsett (from Wikipedia):
First Minister to Mexico
Statue of Poinsett in Greenville, South Carolina in 2010.
He simultaneously served as a special envoy to Mexico from 1822 to 1823 and was appointed the first American minister to Mexico in 1825, and became embroiled in the country’s political turmoil until his recall in 1830. It was during this time that he visited the area of south of Mexico City around Taxco del Alarcon where he found what was later to become known in the United States as the poinsettia, in Mexico is called "Flor de Noche Buena" (Christmas Eve flower). (The Aztecs referred to the winter-blooming plant as cuetlaxochitl; its Latin name is Euphorbia pulcherrima or "the most beautiful Euphorbia.") Poinsett, an avid amateur botanist, sent samples of the plant home to the States and by 1836 the plant was most widely known as the "poinsettia."
From other sources: Because of his meddling in internal affairs in Mexico, the Mexican government forced the United States to recall him from Mexico.
Joel Poinsett
Some brief information about Joel Poinsett (from Wikipedia):
First Minister to Mexico
Statue of Poinsett in Greenville, South Carolina in 2010.
He simultaneously served as a special envoy to Mexico from 1822 to 1823 and was appointed the first American minister to Mexico in 1825, and became embroiled in the country’s political turmoil until his recall in 1830. It was during this time that he visited the area of south of Mexico City around Taxco del Alarcon where he found what was later to become known in the United States as the poinsettia, in Mexico is called "Flor de Noche Buena" (Christmas Eve flower). (The Aztecs referred to the winter-blooming plant as cuetlaxochitl; its Latin name is Euphorbia pulcherrima or "the most beautiful Euphorbia.") Poinsett, an avid amateur botanist, sent samples of the plant home to the States and by 1836 the plant was most widely known as the "poinsettia."
From other sources: Because of his meddling in internal affairs in Mexico, the Mexican government forced the United States to recall him from Mexico.
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Pleasanton, CA