Ohio, Columbiana County, near Hanoverton
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Southeast of this point are the Big and Little tunnels. They were links in the 73-mile Sandy and Beaver Canal which connected the Ohio River with the Ohio and Erie Canal. Shifts of Irish laborers worked night and day with hand drills and blasting powder to cut the 1,060-yard Big Tunnel which opened for commercial use in 1850 and was abandoned two years later, a victim of the railroad.
(Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Southeast of this point are the Big and Little tunnels. They were links in the 73-mile Sandy and Beaver Canal which connected the Ohio River with the Ohio and Erie Canal. Shifts of Irish laborers worked night and day with hand drills and blasting powder to cut the 1,060-yard Big Tunnel which opened for commercial use in 1850 and was abandoned two years later, a victim of the railroad.(Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Believed to have been constructed in 1866, this facility is one of the largest of its kind in the nation. The complex of 200 ovens was erected by the Leetonia Iron and Coal Company, later known as the Cherry Valley Iron Works, to supply fuel for pig-iron producing blast furnaces that stood south of this site.
By the middle of the night before the battle, General Sheridan saw signs that the Confederates might attack near here. By 4 a.m., Sheridan had visited all three of his brigade commanders. He gave orders for his men to be fed an early breakfast and be made ready to fight. Other Federal divisions farther to the south did little to prepare themselves for the onslaught.
Here was the yard and the site of the Samuel
McCreary house, along the extreme advance of
the Confederate skirmish line before Cemetery
Hill. The 1863 McCreary residence, along with its
architectural twin, the Winebrenner house
(standing to your left) faced the Union position
on Cemetery Hill. Louisiana soldiers occupied
both houses and one, Cpl. William H. Poole, was
killed while firing from a balcony doorway of the
McCreary dwelling.
When Abraham Lincoln prophetically spoke of a "house divided", he might well have referenced the sons of Easias Jesse and Margaret Sutherland Culp. Both boys, William E. "William", (b. 1831) and John W. "Wesley", (b. 1839), grew up in Gettysburg and were employed by the town's noted carriage maker, Charles William Hoffman.
In 1856, Hoffman uprooted his business and moved it to Martinsburg, Virginia. Perhaps seeking his own independence, Wesley followed but brother William did not and remained in Gettysburg. When war came, the brothers' allegiances followed this pattern; Wesley enlisted in the 2nd Virginia Infantry, and William signed up with the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, a 3 month unit, and later the 87th.
Although now "brother against brother", it is unrecorded if William and Wesley ever saw each other again. William and Wesley's regiments did face each other in combat just once, at the Second Battle of Winchester on June 15, 1863. There, neither was wounded, but Wesley recognized a Gettysburg friend, Union soldier Jack Skelly, who had been (wounded). Skelly gave Wesley a note to give to his girl, Virginia "Jennie" Wade, back home in Gettysburg. However, Wesley was unable to deliver the note as he was shot and killed on his uncle Henry's farm, July 2nd, the famed "Culp's Hill." Wesley, like so many Confederate soldiers, now rests in an unmarked grave. Post-war, William returned to Gettysburg in 1882 and is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery where entire family plots are common and where Wesley's absence serves as silent witness to the personal cost of conflict.
The Culp Brothers Memorial
Erected by the
Pvt. John Wesley Culp Memorial Camp #1961
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Gettysburg, Pa.
Dedicated July 6, 2013
At noon on July 1, 1863, Union troops advanced
along Baltimore Street to the fields north of the
town. A few hours later they were routed by the
Confederates, and fled toward Cemetery Hill.
Cuts and fills of the Independent Line of the Manassas Gap Railroad are visible along this line and at various places through Fairfax County to Sudley Ford on Bull Run. Running north of the Little River Turnpike from Annandale and along North Street the line crossed to south of the Turnpike at West Street then followed the southern border of the former Mount Vineyard Plantation. Conceived to extend the Manassas Gap Railroad to Alexandria, grading for this portion began in 1854 but work stopped in 1857 without track being laid. In various places the roadbed provided shelter from attack and a route for troop movements during the Civil War.
This peaceful and historic plaza. shaded by cottonwood trees in summer and blanketed by snow in winter has been the site of military action, fiestas, and fiery speeches.
The depot was opened in 1907. The railroad was known as the Wisconsin Northern or by its nickname, "The Whiskey Northern". In 1921, the railway was sold to the Soo Line Railroad.
The Zippin Pippin was Elvis Presley's favorite ride. The "King" rented Libertyland August 8, 1977 from 1:15 a.m. to 7 a.m. to entertain a group of about 10 guests. Decked in a blue jumpsuit with black leather belt, huge belt buckle with turquoise studs and gold chains, the "King" rode the Zippin Pippin repeatedly during a two-hour period. He lost his belt buckle on the ride that morning, and it was found and returned the next day. Elvis's Libertyland rental became his last public appearance. He died August 16.
