The Sharon Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Sharon Springs, New York. To this end, the society operates a local history museum. The collections greatest strength is artifacts related to the area baths and guest quarters between the 1860s and 1930s.
The museum offers exhibits.
In the summer of 1865, General Patrick E. Connor led a column of troops from Fort Laramie into the Powder River Country of northern Wyoming. The Powder River Expedition's mission was to make war on the Indians and punish them, so that they would be forced to keep the peace. On August 28th, with the column located on Prairie Dog Creek, Pawnee Scouts arrived with information of an Arapahoe village encamped on the Tongue River. Following a night march with 250 soldiers and 80 Pawnee Scouts, Connor's force attacked Black Bear's Arapahoe village while the Indians were in the act of packing to move. The soldiers overran the camp and pushed the Indians 10 miles up Wolf Creek. The Indians fought a desperate rear guard action, protecting their families and eventually forcing the soldiers to withdraw. During this action, other soldiers burned the camp and its supplies, making it a funeral pyre for their dead. Indian casualties included 64 warriors and several hundred ponies. As the soldiers withdrew the Indians advanced, recapturing several of their ponies, and continued harassing the column for several days. Connor's column marched back to Fort Laramie following the establishment of Fort Connor on the Powder River near present-day Kaycee.
The site is open to the public.
Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.
The Eugene Field House Museum was the childhood home of children’s poet Eugene Field and his father, Roswell Martin Field. Roswell was a respected lawyer who represented Dred Scott.
It isn't clear that tours are available or if any educational programming exists at this site at this time.
There is already an entry for Blandwood Mansion. Preservation Greensboro Inc. is just a preservation organization.
This site commemorates a battle fought on July 28, 1864, between troops commanded by General Alfred Sully and Sioux Indians. Sully's 2,200 troops, with the aid of artillery batteries, scattered the encamped village reported to contain 6,000 warriors, with losses of 5 soldiers and perhaps 100150 Indians. There is a marker on the site.
The site is open to the public.
Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.
A fine example of Greek Revival architecture, the Shawneetown Bank was constructed 18391841 to house the offices of the Bank of Illinois at Shawneetown.
Website states the site is currently unavailable for tours.
This roadside monument marks the area where Major Daniel McCook died during the battle of Buffington Island. Daniel McCook, an attorney, came to Ohio from Pennsylvania in 1826, eventually settling in Carrollton. During the Civil War, Daniel, his eight sons, and his brother, John, and his five sons were known as the "Fighting McCooks. " Three of Daniel's sons were killed in the other Civil War battles.
The site is open to the public.
Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.
This site honors George T. Johnson, Company G, Third Illinois Cavalry, who drowned in the lake during the 1863 Sibley expedition. There is a marker on the site.
The site is open to the public.
Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.
This site was used as the July 3-4 campsite of the 1863 Sibley expedition. There is a marker on the site.
The site is open to the public.
Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.
This site marks the location of a 200-man military post built in 1867. Although building locations and the dry moat, once eight feet deep, are still clearly discernible, nothing else remains of the original fort or its 12-feet-high sod and log stockade. There is a marker on the site.
The site is open to the public.
Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.