C & O caboose

The humble caboose was a fixture on the end of freight trains for more than a century. It has been called by many slang names including crummy, shack, shanty and cabin car. A caboose provided a sheltered vantage point from ...

Gambier

In 1823, Ohio Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase purchased 8,000 acres of what he called the “beauty spot” of Knox County. Here, he founded Kenyon College, the first men's college west of the Allegheny Mountains, and the second oldest college in ...

Edward Bates Memorial

This glacial boulder

from the Bates Homestead

in Columbus, Ohio

was given to Kenyon College in 1953 by

Fanny Platt Bates Little

in memory of her brother

Edward Bates

son of Judge James Lawrence Bates

and grandson of the honorable Alfred ...

David Bates Douglass

Whoever passes through

this gateway

should remember

David Bates

Douglass

A gallant soldier and

officer in the War of 1812

A civil engineer of distinction

A teacher of wide experience

who in the years 1841-1844

while president of Kenyon

College laid out and

beautified its ...

From Skirmish Line to Burial Ground

Some of the Union infantrymen who defended this ground on the night of September 14th returned the next day. Even though the Confederate strategy had won the battle for Harpers Ferry, and these Union soldiers were part of the largest ...

California Big Trees State Park

The Discovery Stump

In the spring of 1852, Augustus T. Dowd, while hunting, discovered a grove of truly immense trees, now known as the Calaveras North Grove. Several stockholders of the Union Water Company (who employed Augustus as a hunter) developed ...

Battle of Lay's Ferry

May 14, 1864. A contingent from Sweeny´s (2d) div., 16th A.C. [US] made a crossing here in pontoon boats, but on a rumor of Confederate crossings upstream, it withdrew.

May 15. The division, supported by Welker´s Artillery [US], crossed in force ...

We Began Firing At Will: The 111th New York Regiment

"We went below and formed in line of battle and laid down on our arms. Sleep was out of the question but of course, human nature will succumb and drowsiness was general among the boys. It must have been nine ...

A Position Strong by Nature

In 1862 Union Colonel Dixon Miles thought that the ridge in front of you, Bolivar Heights, was the perfect place to defend Harpers Ferry. However, in September of '62, Colonel Miles and 14,000 Union soldiers found themselves surrounded by 24,000 ...

First Shot - Gettysburg

July 1st. 1863

(Front):First Shot

Gettysburg

July 1st. 1863

7:30 a.m.

(Left):

Fired by Capt. Jones with Serg. Shafer's carbine. Co E. 8th Ill's Cavalry

(Back):

Erected 1886

(Right):

By Capt. Jones, Lieut. Riddler, Serg. Shafer

Marker is at the intersection of Chambersburg Pike (U.S. 30) and Knoxlyn Road, on the ...