Massachusetts, Berkshire County, Otis
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In Honor Of
The Men And Women Of
Otis
Who Served Their Country
In World War II Silas Budner • Howard J. Pollman • William S. Crittendon • Louis M. Bittman • Robert L. Soule, Jr. • Maxwell Pyenson • Nelson C. Tacy • Reginald J. Harrington • Daniel W. Gage • Edward P. Hood • David E. Moberg • Richard H. Crittendon • Thomas G. Edwards • Alexander Kaminsky • Arnold D. Hall • Ray Kaminsky • John H. O’Donnell • Francis L. Bliven • Howard D. Hood • Lawrence E. Snow • Kenneth Naminsky • Paul L. Besaw • Ray D. Cowell • Clifford E. Jones • George R. Barton • William E. Barton, Jr. • Barbara J. Somes • Charles B. Gage • William P. Tacy, Jr. • Leon A. Cowell • George F. Dillman • Norman R. Bristol • Ralph R. Worden • William D. Judson, Jr. • William P. Perry • Donald D. Tacy • George W. Langdon • Elwin N. Tacy • Harvey Pelletier
(left panel) Dedicated To Those
Men And Women, Living Or Dead
Who Have Served And Are
Serving In Any Branch Of The
Armed Forces Of The United
States Of America From The
Town Of Otis. A Sincere Thanks
To All Those For Keeping
Our Country And Others Free.
(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
In Honor OfThe Men And Women Of
Otis
Who Served Their Country
In World War II Silas Budner • Howard J. Pollman • William S. Crittendon • Louis M. Bittman • Robert L. Soule, Jr. • Maxwell Pyenson • Nelson C. Tacy • Reginald J. Harrington • Daniel W. Gage • Edward P. Hood • David E. Moberg • Richard H. Crittendon • Thomas G. Edwards • Alexander Kaminsky • Arnold D. Hall • Ray Kaminsky • John H. O’Donnell • Francis L. Bliven • Howard D. Hood • Lawrence E. Snow • Kenneth Naminsky • Paul L. Besaw • Ray D. Cowell • Clifford E. Jones • George R. Barton • William E. Barton, Jr. • Barbara J. Somes • Charles B. Gage • William P. Tacy, Jr. • Leon A. Cowell • George F. Dillman • Norman R. Bristol • Ralph R. Worden • William D. Judson, Jr. • William P. Perry • Donald D. Tacy • George W. Langdon • Elwin N. Tacy • Harvey Pelletier
(left panel) Dedicated To Those
Men And Women, Living Or Dead
Who Have Served And Are
Serving In Any Branch Of The
Armed Forces Of The United
States Of America From The
Town Of Otis. A Sincere Thanks
To All Those For Keeping
Our Country And Others Free.
(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
In 1753, he brought from England
Established in 1789, the U.S. Lighthouse Service maintained lighthouses and a district headquarters in Buffalo until it was absorbed by the Coast Guard in 1939.
Tenth District, long under the command of District Lighthouse Superintendent Roscoe House, ran a depot and lens-repair shop in Buffalo, serving Lake Erie and Lake Ontario lighthouses. The District also tested diaphone foghorns at the Buffalo station, and one of the first radiobeacons on the Great Lakes was installed at the Buffalo Breakwater Light Station in 1925 and also at the Dunkirk Lighthouse Station in 1929. Service work was continued by the Coast Guard, and in the 1950s the Buffalo base was the agency's foghorn repair center.
The Lighthouse Service tenders Crocus and Sundew were familiar sights in Buffalo Harbor early in the century, and the district later also maintained a series of Buffalo lightships about 13 miles off Buffalo Harbor until construction of the Point Abino light by Canada in 1917.
The Coast Guard Base in Buffalo is both a lifeboat station and a regional headquarters covering American Coastal waters from eastern Ohio to the Thousand Islands area of the St. Lawrence River. 
Approximately 100 yards to the West is the probable resting place of Geneeral Louis Hebert, C.S.A. Born in Iberville Parish in 1820, Hebert was graduated from West Point in 1845 third in his class. After an army service of two years, he resigned to manage his family's sugar interests. Before the war he was a member of the state senate and chief engineer of Louisiana. During the war he fought at Wilson's Creek, Elkhorn, Iuka, Corinth, Vicksburg and Fort Fisher. He was an editor and teacher after the war in Iberville and St. Martin Parishes and lived until 1901.
Ante-bellum cotton town and center of social and cultural life. Home of 13 generals of Confederacy. Grant's southern advance halted here by Van Dorn's raid, December, 1862.
The Buffalo Life-saving Station and the headquarters of the U.S. Revenue Marine Bureau's ninth life saving district were established in 1876, beginning operations at the north pier the following spring. 
The birthplace of John F. Hartranft, Civil War hero and Pennsylvania Governor, 1873-79, is to the right on the side road. He reorganized the State Militia as part of the National Guard.
North of Salem Cemetery and the former church was the site of Price's Hotel, the first place to spend the night on the Federal Road after Greenville. Mr Price was also the stagecoach driver for this section between Greenville and his hotel. Mrs McNeil's tavern was located halfway between the church and Midway.
Here prior to Civil War lived Edward Cary Walthall, statesman, lawyer, Confederate Brigadier General and United States Senator from 1885 to 1898. He is buried in this city.
This structure was built about 1850 of adobe bricks (sundried mud and reeds) and cottonwood logs around steel cell blocks. It served as official county jail 1850-66 and 1868-73, when San Elizario was the first and then third El Paso County seat. It housed both jail (“carcel” in Spanish) and courtroom (juzgado”). According to legend, William Bonney, famed outlaw Billy the Kid, freed the only man ever to escape from this jail, his cohort Melquiades Segura.
Pioneer area settler Joshua McCuistion donated land at this site for a Methodist chapel to serve the community of Hollis Prairie. Completed about 1880 adjacent to a schoolhouse, it was built by John R. Lane and his sons, for whom the settlement was later named. The oldest marked grave in the church cemetery is that of Plonzo "Pompey" Cox (1840-1880). Regular worship services here were discontinued in 1960 and the Lanes Chapel Memorial Association was established to restore and maintain the building and grounds. A homecoming is held at this site each June. (1981)
English Text:
“Vicksburg is the key,” said President Abraham Lincoln. “The war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket.”
Two historic transportation routes are incorporated into this walking trail.
On September 28, 1542, Juan Rodriquez Cabríllo and his crew sailed into this harbor and became first Europeans to set foot on what would later become the west coast of the United States. The exact landing area is not known, but many believe that Cabríllo came ashore on Ballast Point, the small finger of land below you.
St. Joseph's Church
In memoriam perpetuam, 1864
Pro patria mortui sunt (“they have died for their country”)
