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While plans for a visitor's center at the Old South Mountain Inn are still fluid, the Maryland Park Service hopes to use the historic building to educate visitors about the Battle of South ...
The Turner's and Fox's Gaps Historic District comprises the Civil War-era battlefield involved in the Battle of South Mountain, which took place on September 14, 1862.The district extends on the west to the slopes of South Mountain in the area of Zittlestown, and to the east beyond the foot of the mountain to the small community of Bolivar.
In the 1890s, the United States War Department placed six markers at the summit of Turner’s Pass, also known as Turner’s Gap, across from the Old South Mountain Inn. They are on the north side of Alternate U.S. 40, the old National Pike, the main highway west from the Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio Valley during the Civil War.
A few years later, in 1862, the inn became the headquarters for a Confederate general during the Battle of South Mountain. After the Civil War, according to the historical society, the inn was ...
Old South Mountain Inn. The Old South Mountain Inn and Dahlgren Chapel are located at Turner's Gap.. The first road through Turner's Gap was created in 1756 as the Road from Frederick to Fort Frederick that connected the town of Frederick with the new fort built as a result of Braddock's Defeat in 1755.
Aug. 3—The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has purchased the former Old South Mountain Inn, a historic commercial stone building, and plans to turn it into a visitors center. The ...
The Battle of South Mountain was fought on the mountain at Crampton's, Fox's, and Turner's gaps during Robert E.Lee's invasion of Maryland in the Civil War in 1862. In 1863, military engagements on the mountain range during Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania included the Fight at Monterey Pass near the Mason–Dixon Line.
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