Cantonment Jordan

In June 1859, Captain John Mullan set out with 100 men. The United States government wanted a military road built through some of the wildest, untamed country in the West. Mullan led the effort to build a road connecting Walla ...

Canton

Side A:

Here on the Mississippi, where wooded hills rise above the plains along the river, Edward White, Robert Sinclair, and Isaac Bland founded Canton, probably named for Canton, Ohio, in February of 1830. On the pioneer Salt River Trail, the ...

The Franklin Cantonment

Fort George G. Meade

In the summer of 1918 the Franklin Cantonment, a Signal Corps Camp of Instruction, opened within 1 mile of the original Camp Meade. This 400-acre camp housed 11,000 men and women (19 battalions) in 599 structures. The ...

The People of the New Windsor Cantonment

Approximately 7,500 soldiers of the Continental Army, who came from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states, Canada, and even Europe, lived at New Windsor Cantonment. Although most were in their twenties, the soldiers ranged in age from their early teens to ...

New Windsor Cantonment

…Going, going, gone!

A “cantonment” was a more permanent quarters for troops than an encampment of tents. New Windsor, like Valley Forge, contained orderly lines of log huts that housed troops over the winter. After the Revolutionary War, New Windsor’s huts ...

Canton Viaduct

Constructed in 1835

National Register of Historic Places

Placed by Canton Historical Commission

Dedicated July 4th 1993

National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark

Designated by the American society of Civil Engineers

Dedicated in 1999

The Canton viaduct is one of the two oldest surviving multiple arch stone ...

The Canton Library

This branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library was built in and opened for use in 1886, one of four given to the city of Baltimore by Enoch Pratt, a great philanthropist of that era. It is the only one ...

Historic Canton

Through the efforts of the Canton Improvement Association this old and densely populated ethnic neighborhood was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The two-story red brick row houses are especially noteworthy for their hand painted screens, ...