Guided Tours:

Our Civil War walking tour will show you the Civil War sites of Emmitsburg or Monterey Pass. I will share with you pictures from the time period closely representing what area looked like during the time of Civil War. The tours are approximately one hour long. Our fees are $10.00 per-person with kids 10 years of age and under free of charge. All fees go back into our efforts of historical preservation and research projects.

The walking tour is a reserve basis, so let me know what times suit your family needs. If you plan a trip to the Gettysburg area and would like to tour, please feel free to contacts us!

Touring the Battle of Monterey Site:

This tour will start at Fairfield, Pa. and travel on Iron Springs Road to Gum Springs Road and come out at the intersection by the rail road tracks near Charmian. This intersection is Old Waynesboro Road. You will travel to Fountaindale at the base of the mountain, and travel back up to Monterey and continue through Monterey Pass to Rouzerville. From Rouzerville, you'll travel up the mountain to PenMar. From PenMar travel back down the mountain and end your tour at Ringgold.

The tour itself is roughly 20 miles and takes about a hour to do. The tour covers some of the most rugged mountain roads in the Monterey area. Please use caution when traveling these roads. The best time of the year to tour the Monterey area is from April to mid October.

Touring the Emmitsburg & Waynesboro Turnpike:

The Emmitsburg and Waynesboro Pike was a major road that traveled over South Mountain and had several key intersections that connected to it. Zora was only a crossroad at the time of the Civil War. It was where the Emmitsburg-Waynesboro Road and the Fairfield Road came together, and both armies felt the need to obtain and protect their positions at these crossroads and mountain gaps to see the troop movements in the direction of Emmitsburg, Waynesboro or Fairfield.

Six miles north of the Mason and Dixon Line is a little town called Fountain Dale. Fountain Dale is located between Jack's Mountain, Beards Hill, on the Old Waynesboro Pike. Pegram's Artillery reached Maryland late in the evening on June 25th, crossing the Potomac River at Boteler's Ford. From there they traveled the roads that led into Hagerstown. After reaching Fayetteville, Pa., their horses were done in and they needed fresh horses. Lt. Chamberlayne took a 25 man detail into Adams County to Fairfield.

On June 28th, 1863, Fountain Dale was the first skirmish in Adams County according to several veterans of Cole's Cavalry. It was here that a Confederate 25 man foraging party coming in from the direction of Fairfield came upon a small church. The foraging party took the horses but not before they were spotted by members of Cole's Cavalry Company C under Lt. William Horner.