The Cashtown Inn was built in 1797 and got it’s name from the owner’s requirement for cash to use his road. It was heavily occupied by Confederate forces during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. The Confederates’ retreat started at the Inn and consisted of a 17-mile wagon train . The Inn is now a B&B. A personal note–take the two-hour horseback ride through the battlefield and return to the Cashtown for some drinks at the very same bar where Sam Elliot and Martin Sheen hoisted a few after a days’ filming of the movie Gettysburg. (See last photo below)

The front of the Inn was the site of General Lee and his troops hearing the heavy sounds of the battle’s first day–July 1, 1863. The first photo is a painting by Mort Kunstler capturing that moment. The next photo is dated 1909.

Turkey Run State Park is located in west central Indiana near the town of Marshall.  The Inn opened in 1919 and looks much the same as it did back then.  The first photo is undated.

Located in Zig Zag, Oregon, the Barlow Trail Roadhouse was originally called The Gateway Inn since it was (and still is)  the gateway to the Mount Hood area from the west. Built in 1926 it was a favorite hangout for workers constructing the nearby Timberline Lodge at the base of Mount Hood. It was known to have “the best food downstairs and the best girls upstairs”. The first photo is from the 1930s.

Lake McDonald Lodge in Glacier National Park was opened in 1914. It was then  known as Lewis Glacier Hotel and was renamed in 1957. The front is on the lakeside because all early visitors came by boat since the first roads weren’t completed until 1921. After Glacier National Park was established in 1910, the need for expanded accommodations arose, and the lodge was built. It is interesting that, for many years,  the Great Northern Railway operated everything in the Park except the lodge, which was privately owned and on private land. It was sold to the National Park Service in 1930. The first photo is dated 1920 and shows the front before it became obscured. The side view is from 1915.