00:02 - Already the day my name is Mike o'Dell

00:05 - that i'm a docent for the friends of the heritage rail trail

00:09 - and i haven't be in your county

00:12 - and we're standing here today at

00:13 - the famous Hanover junction.

00:17 - My name's reverend Kurt weber

00:19 - i'm a dose and also at the

00:21 - Hanover junction train station

00:23 - and I've been a docent for over ten years since i retired

00:27 - and i think it's important to understand local history

00:30 - so i wanted to be part of this history.

00:34 - We are

00:35 - in the train station

00:37 - in the inner room of the train station in Hanover junction

00:40 - and this is where the northern central railroad

00:43 - and the Hanover branch railroad meet.

00:46 - In this room is called the civil war room

00:49 - and it has a lot of things relating to Abraham Lincoln

00:52 - and why this room is import st and this.

00:56 - Train stations important

00:57 - is because Abraham Lincoln came through

01:00 - this train station

01:01 - on his way to deliver the gettysburg address

01:04 - in November the nineteenth eighteen sixty three.

01:08 - He

01:09 - came through here on the eighteenth from Washington

01:12 - up the northern central railroad

01:14 - then he came

01:16 - to this train station got off his tray

01:18 - then got on the Hanover branch

01:20 - railroad train

01:22 - and took him over to gettysburg.

01:24 - He did his gettysburg address then then came back through here

01:27 - the next day on November the nineteenth

01:30 - went on his way back to Washington

01:33 - and he did come through here one more time

01:36 - and that was an April twenty first eighteen sixty three

01:40 - unfortunately he was not alive he was on his way

01:44 - the next stop was going to be in Harrisburg

01:46 - and the funeral train was coming through Hanover junction

01:50 - and behind us is a special schedule

01:53 - for that for Lincoln's few tunnel train

01:56 - and it says it's going to stop here at Hanover junction at five

02:01 - fifty five

02:03 - on

02:03 - April the twenty first eighteen sixty five.

02:10 - And right over here in this room we have a

02:12 - famous picture of there was taken by the men of

02:16 - Matthew Brady

02:18 - and he had

02:19 - a gallery

02:21 - in Washington DC.

02:23 - This was taken by

02:25 - Anthony berger and David woodbury is famous photographers came up from Washington

02:30 - and

02:31 - this was taken we think on

02:33 - November

02:34 - seventeenth or eighteenth of eighteen sixty three the gentleman in the picture.

02:40 - Is supposed to be Abraham Lincoln.

02:44 - We'd have the.

02:46 - Hanover junction hotel off to the left and that was owned at that time by John Scott

02:52 - and

02:52 - how the

02:53 - Hanover branch railroad

02:55 - on the west side of the tracks and

02:57 - see the engine

02:59 - is pointed

03:00 - southbound

03:01 - because when the confederates raided his juncture on June twenty seventh of eighteen

03:06 - sixty three

03:07 - they had burnt the turntable

03:09 - turntables

03:10 - behind

03:11 - the train

03:12 - the train had to

03:14 - come down from

03:15 - spring grove and Hanover

03:17 - come south

03:18 - and then it could not turn around

03:20 - and so

03:21 - Abraham Lincoln's train had to backup to gettysburg at that time.

03:26 - Abraham Lincoln when he came in here November eighteenth

03:29 - he did note that there was a battle here on June twenty seventh

03:34 - just preliminary to the gettysburg campaign

03:37 - he noticed that the box cars sitting there

03:40 - not ruined by a w eichelberger were burned

03:43 - and he also noted that the turntable was burn

03:47 - and the bridge that goes across the south branch of the doors heading to York

03:51 - Pennsylvania was also burned by the confederates

03:55 - they were the

03:56 - thirty fifth.

03:58 - Virginia

03:59 - and it was led by lieutenant colonel

04:01 - Eli beers white

04:03 - he was from poolesville Pennsylvania poolesville Maryland i'm sorry.

04:08 - Although we have another famous picture on the y

04:10 - also.

04:12 - We believe this picture would have been taken in

04:15 - that same time period either eighteen sixty three

04:19 - or eighteen sixty five

04:20 - and

04:21 - this would be the steps

04:23 - on the east side of the junction on the porch.

04:27 - These this would

04:28 - would be

04:29 - a party of dignitaries at the time

04:32 - we think these two fellows

04:33 - were Lincoln's personal secretaries we have

04:36 - John nicolay

04:38 - and we have John hay

04:40 - and they stayed with Lincoln

04:41 - during his time in the presidency in Washington

04:44 - DC

04:45 - they had rooms on the second floor sure

04:47 - we think this for all hair

04:49 - possibly it could be Andrew carnegie

04:52 - of course he

04:53 - was a

04:54 - famous industrialist from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

04:57 - and had

04:58 - a lot of railroads at the time

05:01 - and

05:01 - Abraham Lincoln and Andrew carnegie were best friends.

05:06 - And we think this general

05:07 - was general McLaren

05:10 - and he was from Kentucky

05:11 - and he would have also been appointed general

05:14 - and he would have

05:15 - been a friend of Abraham Lincoln also.

05:19 - Some of these people

05:21 - did not attend

05:23 - the Lincoln's gettysburg address at the national cemetery

05:27 - so that

05:28 - so there we have a question

05:29 - being that they weren't

05:31 - at

05:31 - the

05:32 - cemetery and

05:33 - they weren't at the dedication whether or not they were on a train.

05:38 - The day before

05:40 - or whether or not this was taken maybe in sixty four after the

05:44 - eighteenth sixty three dedication over here I'll make

05:48 - one comment about this is the last station master

05:52 - this train station was built in eighteen fifty one

05:55 - so from eighteen fifty two

05:57 - to nineteen twenty nine

05:59 - there

06:00 - they had station masters here

06:02 - at the train station

06:04 - and wilfred th schaefer

06:06 - is the last one

06:08 - his son Roger

06:09 - built a lot of the models that we see in this museum

06:13 - whether it be for the

06:14 - head of a junction train station

06:16 - or over in the village room

06:18 - it shows the different

06:19 - buildings

06:20 - that existed

06:21 - whether it be cigar factory

06:23 - or other

06:25 - merchandise store

06:26 - or other facilities

06:28 - other

06:28 - types of store.

06:30 - There have been.

06:32 - Various comments made

06:34 - to us about is there anything here that is authentic that existed back way back when

06:39 - where there's two items.

06:41 - We see here

06:43 - again the last station master we see the bottom end of a clock.

06:47 - That clock is hanging on the wall there

06:49 - so that

06:50 - that existed

06:52 - certainly

06:52 - at the time the last stationmaster was here

06:55 - and we have one piece of furniture over here there's a chair

06:59 - that was

07:00 - in use in the waiting room

07:02 - at Hanover junction train station at the time of president Lincoln

07:06 - so that probably would be our only authentic piece

07:09 - that

07:10 - that we're aware of.

07:12 - This was

07:13 - just a representation of a telegraph office.

07:17 - By

07:18 - eighteen fifty four there was a telegraph office in the building

07:21 - all there was to to log of hers on duty at all times

07:25 - this was a new invention.

07:27 - You could send a message out from

07:29 - Philadelphia to California

07:31 - and within

07:32 - few hours had the message back

07:34 - instead of going around the

07:36 - Africa cape which would have taken about two weeks so

07:39 - this was a brand new invention

07:41 - this was manned by the western union

07:43 - at the time

07:46 - and

07:46 - this led to Robert e Lee

07:48 - sending the lives of years white thirty two of Virginia

07:52 - into the Hanover junction Robert e Lee

07:54 - knew

07:55 - that this was the main line of communication

07:58 - to

07:59 - general

07:59 - George word mead

08:00 - of the army of the potomac

08:02 - and also to Washington d c

08:04 - this was the last remaining telling graph line

08:07 - directed to Washington

08:08 - and Robert e Lee said he larger beers white thirty three Virginia calvary here

08:13 - to cut the telegraph line

08:15 - the burn this

08:17 - facility

08:18 - destroy the tracks and the corps

08:20 - and destroy all the communication

08:22 - between

08:23 - all

08:24 - Lincoln

08:25 - in.

08:26 - Washington

08:27 - and general George Gordon Meade

08:29 - coming through the valley towards gettysburg Pennsylvania.

08:33 - They did

08:34 - come here and read this facility they

08:36 - they did burn it we had the picture

08:39 - of that lieutenant colonel.

08:41 - He was here for about two hours.

08:45 - This facility was

08:47 - guarded by the twentieth Pennsylvania militia they were Bonnie day recruits

08:52 - a lot of them

08:53 - weren't even trained on how to load their muskets

08:56 - so when a larger beers went

08:58 - on a cavalry

08:59 - attack this junction

09:01 - on June twenty seventh of eighteen sixty three

09:04 - the twentieth Pennsylvania

09:06 - they were in a skirmish formation along the railroad tracks in the road

09:10 - but they did evacuate the junction all they had fired a few shots

09:15 - and they then went up to bots hill to their camp

09:19 - and they left the junction at the mercy of your

09:22 - lieutenant colonel

09:23 - image of fear of light.

09:25 - He did

09:26 - burn the facility

09:27 - on the far end of the facility

09:29 - but luckily

09:31 - the two lager for the time John sheer

09:33 - did keep the key to the telegraph

09:36 - and

09:37 - after

09:37 - the larger readers which may laugh

09:40 - at the telegraph operator John sure could reassemble

09:43 - the telegraph key and started sending messages again

09:47 - down to Washington.

09:49 - Where Lincoln was waiting at the telegraph office.

09:53 - And this revenge the Hanover junction hotel.

09:58 - There have been rooms to

09:59 - lend for

10:00 - travelers it was also a general store

10:03 - at the time.

10:05 - At the time of the battle

10:06 - on June twenty seventh of eighteen sixty three the battle of gettysburg John Scott

10:11 - would have owned this building John Scott

10:15 - and when larger beers whites came into the area

10:18 - his men

10:19 - raided that store

10:20 - or they took hats and they took shoes

10:23 - clothing items

10:25 - of course there would have been

10:26 - rye whiskey in there at the time

10:29 - they confiscated all the y whiskey and they drank it

10:32 - and.

10:33 - As utiliser of years waits wrote

10:35 - July Scott came out of the tyrant and he said what's going on

10:40 - i thought

10:40 - confederates were gentlemen

10:42 - i didn't know they would Rob the people in Pennsylvania

10:45 - and at that point larger fears white said

10:48 - you're correct

10:49 - and he put a guard on both doors

10:51 - that his

10:52 - confederate soldiers could not go into the store

10:54 - and robbed the store or any longer.

10:58 - There is a website on the York county rail trail the going kind of partial recreation

11:03 - hasn't website

11:04 - of the

11:05 - Hanover junction museum

11:06 - being open

11:07 - i usually we open

11:09 - around memorial day every year

11:12 - end of may

11:13 - and we're usually open until the end of September.

11:17 - Every weekend Saturday and Sunday

11:20 - are normally hours are ten

11:22 - ten to three.

11:23 - On Saturday and.

11:25 - Eleven to three

11:27 - on Sunday i think it's important.

11:30 - For people to understand.

11:33 - Their local history

11:35 - to join

11:35 - local historical societies

11:37 - stop in to see these kinds of museums because history was made here

11:42 - and particularly if you like Abraham Lincoln

11:45 - or if you like just history of what's happening in your community

11:49 - this is a place to go.