Drum Barracks
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The Drum Barracks in Wilmington, California (a district of the city of Los Angeles near the Port of Los Angeles) is the only major American Civil War landmark in Southern California. Home of Camp Drum from 1861 to 1871, it was the Union's southwestern headquarters and oversaw the Union territory of southern California and Arizona.
Today, the barracks is open as a museum which commemorates California's contribution to the Civil War. It holds a local repuatation as the locale of various paranormal activity, with visitors claiming to hear the sound of rattling chains, spotting apparitions of a woman in a Hoop skirt, and smelling a strong lavender violet perfume. In 2005 the Barracks was featured in an episode of Most Haunted.[1]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Most Haunted episode: 92; original airdate October 4, 2005. www.livingtv.co.uk
[edit] External links
- Drum Barracks official website
- History of the Drum Barracks from the California State Military Museum webpage
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