Existing comment:
A Popular Destination: 1880 - 1920:
"It was the summer home of the martyr President Lincoln during the stirring times of the civil war, and for this reason allow should be carefully preserved and revered by all, though other Presidents of the United States, like Buchanan, Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur were wont to spend a portion of their summers here."
-- Inspector General J.C. Breckenridge, USSH 1901 Annual Report
"The Soldiers' Home drive is the most popular, as it is the most accessible, and it bears repeated visiting without tiring the visitor... As the carriages turn into a shaded lane where the roadway is bowered by the trees at each side, the visitor sees that the city he has left is spread out before him far to the east and west."
-- Harper's Weekly, June 1886. |