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POINTS OF INTEREST

1. On the right as you leave the MP gate is a monument which marks the spot on which stood a Revolutionary War forge. On the left of Ashburn drive is -

2. Root Hall, home of the US Army War College, the Army's senior educational institution. 

3. Upton Hall, on the right, is post headquarters. The building was constructed in 1941 during the tenure of the Medical Field Service School.

4. A Medal of Honor Memorial, in front of Upton Hall, honors those graduates of the War College who have been presented the nation's highest award.

5. A monument on Dragon Circle commemorates Carlisle Barracks as the first home of the Army's "Mobile Arm." A cavalry school was opened here in 1838. The post also served as a cavalry depot until 1879, when it became the home of the Carlisle Indian School.

6. On the left as you continue along Ashburn Drive is Indian Field, built by and for athletes attending the Carlisle Indian School. Such greats as Jim Thorpe, Charles (Chief) Bender and Bemus Pierce gained their fame on this field.

7. Travelling along Sumner Road, on the right you will see the Chapel Center, one of the most modern in the US Army.

8. On the left as you approach Gate 4 is the Indian Cemetery. Here are buried those boys and girls who died while attending school. The headstones with their Indian names are most interesting.

[[image - map of Indian Field]]

9. Dunham Army Hospital, on the left as you drive along Gibner Road, was built in 1961. It provides out-patient service for as many as 200 patients daily, and serves both active duty and retired personnel from 19 counties in Western Pennsylvania.

10. At the end of Gibner Road is the Hessian Guardhouse Museum, built by Hessians captured by General Washington at the battle of Trenton. It is open Sunday afternoons from 1 to 5 p.m.

11. A statue of Frederick the Great, presented to the War College by President Theodore Roosevelt, faces Quarters One and Two, home of the Commandant and Deputy Commandant.

12. Royal American Circle is named for a regiment of the British Army which was part of the first regular garrison stationed at Carlisle Barracks.

13. Coren Apartments was named for Isaac Coren who organized the first Artillery School of the American Army here in 1777. It too was burned by Confederates in 1863 and immediately rebuilt.

14. This building, with canopy and red carpet, is the Officers' Open Mess.

15. On this site is a monument to the members of the Army's Medical Department killed in World War I.

16. Armstrong Hall is named after General John Armstrong, one of the commanders of Carlisle Barracks during the Revolutionary War and the first Brigadier General in the Continental Army. The building was erected by the Carlisle Indian School in 1895.

17. Thorpe Hall, named for Jim Thorpe, was built in 1887 by students of the Carlisle Indian School.