by MoHB | Feb 2, 2021 | Benicia Arsenal History, Benicia History, California History, News & Notes
Solano Chronicles, Jan. 31, 2021 By Brendan Riley The U.S. Army’s experiment in using camels to haul supplies in the 1850s and 1860s has been described in scores, if not hundreds, of research papers, government reports, newspaper columns, books and even a couple of...
by MoHB | Oct 23, 2020 | Benicia Arsenal History, Benicia History, News & Notes, Podcast
Listen to the eighth episode of the Benicia Historical Museum’s COVID Quarantine Camelcast! Providing a “camel’s eye view” of Benicia’s unique history. In this episode, Executive Director Elizabeth d’Huart and Museum volunteer Allan Gandy talk about The...
by MoHB | Jul 23, 2020 | Benicia Arsenal History, Benicia History, News & Notes
On July 23, 1885, just after completing his memoirs, Civil War hero and former president Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer. A brief biography of Grant can be found on the History Chanel Website at...
by MoHB | May 19, 2014 | Benicia Arsenal History
Julian McAllister was the commanding officer of the arsenal from 1860 to 1886 and built a great deal of the buildings at the arsenal at that time. He was the son of a prominent Savannah, Georgia family, the brother of New York society leader Ward McAllister and Hall...
by MoHB | May 19, 2014 | Benicia Arsenal History
When the new arsenal commander, Franklin D. Callender took over in 1856, he requested appropriations to be set aside for a new storehouse. His correspondence to the ordnance office in Washington show his interest in the aesthetic as well as functional aspects of the...
by MoHB | May 19, 2014 | Benicia Arsenal History
There were two powder magazines constructed by Commander Stone, one on the extreme north of the property and one shown in the photo which is directly behind the storehouses which now hold the Museum. The first was begun in 1855 and the second in 1857 and were...
