The Appalachian Trail runs across the site. At one end of the clearing rests a small obelisk surrounded by a waist-high wall. The monument commemorates a major general of the Union Army who fell ...

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An 1864 photo of General Ulysses S ... and his future political career. Grant’s order responded to an unsettling economic reality: Despite the war raging around them, Southern planters still ...

The trail officially opens to the public on Saturday, Sept. 21. Brochures will be available outside the front office near the main entrance of the farm and include a map as well as more ...