The Danner Museum
Adams County Remembered Joel Albertus Danner (son of Joel B. Danner) was just 16 when he witnessed the battle that came to his hometown. He picked…
Browsing: Adams County Remembered
Helen Longstreet
The equestrian monument to Gen. James Longstreet on the Gettysburg battlefield is not where or what was originally planned. On July 2, 1941, Helen Longstreet,…
Union Gen. George Meade Headquarters
Lydia Leister, widow of James and mother of five children, bought a small farm along Taneytown Road in 1861 that would become a famous landmark…
The Wagon Hotel
The Wagon Hotel (later called the Battlefield Hotel), shown circa 1886, stood at the corner of Baltimore Street and Emmitsburg Road. It was a popular…
Cook’s Mill
Cook’s Mill, shown here around 1890, is one of the several 19th-century stone grist mills surviving in Adams County. This one, located a mile north…