• Catherinus Putnam Buckingham, in addition to serving in the Civil War as a Brigadier General, was the builder of the Maplehurst Mansion, which used to sit on East Gambier Street in Mount Vernon. Today the site is occupied by apartments.

  • General Buckingham was given the unpleasant duty of informing Major General George McClellan (above) that he had been removed from command of the Army of the Potomac by order of President Abraham Lincoln.

  • During the 2019 living history tour of Mound View Cemetery, Christina and Mike Petee portrayed the Potwins, the second owners of Maplehurst. George B. Potwin was a prominent grocer and businessman in Mount Vernon.

  • This map detail from the 1871 Caldwell & Starr Atlas of Knox County, Ohio shows the grounds of the Maplehurst Mansion, then owned by George Potwin.

  • This image shows the rear of the stately Maplehurst mansion.

  • Another view of the front of Maplehurst in an undated image from approximately the 1960s.

  • This stairwell once stood inside Maplehurst.

  • A photograph of the Maplehurst mansion. Date of the photograph is unknown.