Not to be confused with the neighboring summit communities of Beartown, Blue Ridge Summit

Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania

Blue Ridge Summit is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States, southwest of Gettysburg in the central part of the state, adjoining Pennsylvania's southern border with Maryland. It is less than 3 miles east of Pen Mar, Maryland...

, Buena Vista Springs, Highfield or Cascade

Highfield-Cascade, Maryland

Highfield-Cascade is a census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,141 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Highfield-Cascade is located at ....

, Pen Mar, or Pennersville

Monterey, Pennsylvania, is an unincorporated community which was added to the USGS Geographic Names Information System

Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories. It is a type of gazetteer...

 on August 2, 1979. After the site was surveyed for the never-completed Tapeworm Railroad

Tapeworm Railroad

The Tapeworm Railroad was a railway line planned by Thaddeus Stevens and nicknamed by opponents ridiculing a lengthy serpentine section around the Green Ridge of South Mountain...

, the summit community was settled on the Emmitsburg

Emmitsburg, Maryland

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 2,290 people, 811 households, and 553 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,992.9 people per square mile . There were 862 housing units at an average density of 750.2 per square mile...

 & Waynesboro

Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

Waynesboro is a borough in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, located northwest of Baltimore, Maryland, 67 miles southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and north of the Mason-Dixon Line. The population within the borough limits was 9,614 at the 2000 census. When combined with the surrounding...

 Turnpikehttp://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wcQlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=m_UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7196,2316920&dq=waynesboro-turnpike+monterey&hl=en east of the Nichol's Gap Road intersection near the Toll Gate and Brown's Spring and later bypassed by the 20th century Pennsylvania Route 16

Pennsylvania Route 16

Pennsylvania Route 16 is a long east–west state route located in southern Pennsylvania, United States. The western terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 522 in McConnellsburg. The eastern terminus is at the Mason-Dixon Line in Liberty Township, where PA 16 continues into Maryland as...

 highway.

As with the Pen Mar Park

Pen Mar Park

Pen Mar Park is a scenic area located on High Rock Road on the Mason-Dixon line in Washington County, Maryland. In 1877, the site was opened as an amusement park by the Western Maryland Railroad...

 to the south, Monterey was the site of numerous resort facilities such as the Clermont House, 1887 Monterey Hotel,http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=C6JCAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xLkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3295,5698069&dq=monterey+blue-ridge+-the-sun&hl=en the Monterey House,http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/history/area/chapter-xxxv.txt the Monterey Inn, the Monterey Academy,http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3v0lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qvIFAAAAIBAJ&dq=barlow-happenings&pg=1574%2C7570127 and the Monterey Country Club

Monterey Country Club

Built before 1885, the Monterey Country Club is home to one of the oldest golf courses in the United States. The club sits just below the peaks of 1,720 Mt...

. The community's post office established in the late 19th century was named Charmian (another PA post office already was named Monterey), and the Charmian station of the Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway

Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway

The Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway was a railroad that operated in Maryland and Pennsylvania in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The 59 miles main line ran from Emory Grove, Maryland to Orrtanna, Pennsylvania, with a 6 miles branch from Valley Junction, Pennsylvania to Hanover Junction,...

 was established after the Western Extension was laid in 1888-1889 (cf.

Cf.

cf., an abbreviation for the Latin word confer , literally meaning "bring together", is used to refer to other material or ideas which may provide similar or different information or arguments. It is mainly used in scholarly contexts, such as in academic or legal texts...

 Monterey Station in 1872).

Civil War

As a mountain community near the intersection of the turnpike and the Nichol's Gap Road, the Monterey area was an 1863 American Civil War site through which both Federal and Confederate forces maneuvered during the Gettysburg Campaign

Gettysburg Campaign

The Gettysburg Campaign was a series of battles fought in June and July 1863, during the American Civil War. After his victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia moved north for offensive operations in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The...

 (e.g., Buford's Cavalry enroute to a June 29/30 Fountaindale bivouac)http://books.google.com/books?id=hK5kYSmGAXkC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=%22Monterey+Springs%22+pennsylvania&source=bl&ots=aI5o4yS1A2&sig=dj4BrZt7GjJjDHqU7HstA-RE_xo&hl=en&ei=H_zDTq2mLtL3sQLM8KmqCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBwQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=%22Monterey%20Springs%22%20pennsylvania&f=false and a ight at Monterey Gap|military engagement during the retreat from Gettysburg

Retreat from Gettysburg

The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia began its Retreat from Gettysburg on July 4, 1863. Following General Robert E. Lee's failure to defeat the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg , he ordered a retreat through Maryland and over the Potomac River to relative safety in Virginia. The Union...

 was at the Monterey location. On July 5, prisoners of war encamped athttp://books.google.com/books?id=qJ5AowA2oQIC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=%22Monterey+Springs%22+pennsylvania&source=bl&ots=cE1MmqhTU3&sig=I-1Zuwf7VFgK9k2Mq981UdDM8t8&hl=en&ei=asnDTuGgHuixsALy4YXICw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22Monterey%20Springs%22%20pennsylvania&f=false and east of the site,http://books.google.com/books?id=7UudzOuUVlAC&lpg=PA56&ots=d73KshawD6&dq=%22Monterey%20Springs%22%20pennsylvania&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q=Monterey%20Springs&f=false and "two soldiers of the Fourth Carolina Cavalry

4th Regiment South Carolina Cavalry

The 4th South Carolina Cavalry Regiment was a regiment of cavalry in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. They were from the state of South Carolina and served primarily in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War...

" were buried "near the gatehouse of the Monterey Springs".http://books.google.com/books?id=c3moUepIA8gC&pg=PT419&lpg=PT419&dq=gatehouse+%22Monterey+Springs%22&source=bl&ots=lF1ujEDViE&sig=XscxfRcMdt4uoXSsrQVhZF2d6cI&hl=en&ei=ufDDTrOMHaKnsAKU7qyQCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=gatehouse%20%22Monterey%20Springs%22&f=false