Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, on November 18, 1863, addressed the citizens of Hanover from the rear platform of a Hanover Branch Railroad Coach when the train bearing him to Gettysburg for the dedication of the National Cemetery came down a switch to ...

The Hermit of Emerald Bay

An Eccentric Caretaker

Captain Richard “Dick” Barter found his way to Lake Tahoe in the 1860s. Barter spent the long winters in Emerald Bay as the sole caretaker of a summer villa owned by Ben Holladay, Jr.

Originally an English sailor, Barter ...

Battles of Tilton

<-- 2.8 mi. --<<<

2.8 miles E. of here, on May 13, 1864, a delaying action was fought as Confederates moved south toward Resaca. On Oct.13, 1864, part of French’s Division of Stewart’s Corps, Confederates Army of Tennessee, attacked this place, ...

The Glasshouse Complex and Herb Garden

John Jay Homestead

The design of the herb garden located here among the ruins of the old glasshouse yard is based on typical 18th- and 19th-century American and English gardens. Please enter and explore. An herb garden brochure is available ...

11th Independent (Havelock) Battery

New York Light Artillery

11th Independent (Havelock)

Battery,

New York Light Artillery,

4th Volunteer Brigade,

Artillery Reserve,

July 3rd 1863.

Attached to Battery K,

1st New York Light Artillery.

Casualties

Woudned 5.

Organized at Albany, New York.

October 26th, 1861.

Mustered into

United States service.

January 6th 1862.

Participated in all battles

of the Army of the ...

The Equitable Building

This building, designed in 1889 in the Richardson-Sullivan tradition by Charles L. Carson and Joseph Evans Sperry, was considered the first skyscraper to be erected in Baltimore. It is the oldest of the existing structures on Monument Square and once ...

Continental Trust Building

The Continental Trust Building, constructed in 1902, is the only building in Baltimore designed by Daniel H. Burnham, a major figure in the Commercial Style that developed in Chicago at the turn of the century and produced the American skyscraper. ...

Bunker Hill Mine

The mine was first worked as the Rancheria Mine in 1853. Was renamed the South Mayflower in 1893. It was organized in 1899 as the Bunker Hill Consolidated Mine and operated till 1922, producing $5,154,382 in gold. The shaft reached ...

Camp Breckenridge

CSA

Established near this site 1862. Part Confederate frontier defense line from Red River to Rio Grande. Occupied by company of Texas Frontier Regiment. Posts were day's horseback ride apart and area patrolled regularly. Duties included curbing Indian raids, rounding up ...

Samuel Elbert

1740 - 1788

Savannah Merchant, oraganized and

commanded Grenadier Company

1772; Member Council of Safty;

Fought several battles as Continential

Colonel; Captured twice; After release

commanded stores at Yorktown;

Promoted to Militia Major General, 1782;

Brevetted Continential Brigadier

General, 1783; ...