Mark Twain Tours

Mark Twain Tours Tour bus friendly professional step-on guide. Gilded Age Victorian Tours. Catering to tour buses, tourists, and groups. Located in the Finger Lakes Region.

Over 25 years of tour bus experience. We offer quality tours to fit your needs and TIME schedule.

Groundbreaking at Elmira Civil War Prison Camp A fine addition to our bus/motor coach touring next fall. This 1.6 millio...
07/27/2025

Groundbreaking at Elmira Civil War Prison Camp A fine addition to our bus/motor coach touring next fall. This 1.6 million dollar project will be completed by September 2026. A fine Civil War Prison addition to add to our tours. This will have an interactive in the round 10 min or so show! The Martin Chalk Civil War Camp Visitor Center. We are looking forward to this. We are Mark Twain & so much MORE! I LOVE NEW YORK Finger Lakes Welcome Center Explore Finger Lakes NY Explore Finger Lakes NY Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance Partner Community FingerLakesRegion Martin Chalk for County Legislature Brent Stermer 11th District Chemung County Legislator Chemung Co. Executive Chris Moss Jen Furman Deputy Executive, Chemung County NY Chemung County Historical Society John W. Jones Museum Elmira College Elmira College - Gannett-Tripp Library City of Elmira, Councilman District 1 - Nick Grasso

07/27/2025
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07/27/2025

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On Saturday, ground was broken on a new visitors center at the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp site, which aims to help further education about it's impact on the war that divided America.

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07/25/2025

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Tomorrow 7/26/25, is the big day!

Morning lecture topics

9AM- "Getting Worse Every Day: The Smallpox Epidemic at the Elmira Prison Camp"
Dr Gary Emerson, Schuyler County Historian

One of the leading causes of death at the Elmira Prison Camp was smallpox. Smallpox was a feared disease at the time because it often resulted in death. The virus was an example of how history is often impacted by our environment and how human actions can often produce unintended consequences. The illness was introduced into the prison camp in the fall of 1864, and despite belated attempts to arrest it the virus spread and killed many men, especially in February and March of 1865.

10 AM - "Paperwork & Bureaucracy Again: Exchange & Parole" - Douglas Cubbison, Curator, US Army Heritage & Education Center

The cumbersome system of handling prisoners of war through paroles and exchanges created a bureaucratic tangle of red tape. When and how prisoners were exchanged entailed a significant amount of red tape and created challenging logistics.

11AM - "Elmira and the Second Wave of Prisons”
Thomas K. Meier Keynote Speaker, Robert Crickenberger, President, Friends of Point Lookout Maryland

As the Civil War progressed into its third bloody year, federal campaigns were sending thousands of prisoners north in numbers that overwhelmed existing prisons. Furthermore, the forced cessation of a prisoner exchange cartel compounded the burden of the already overcrowded prison system, further denying the Confederate government of its much-needed manpower. By mid-1863, a desperate Commissary General of Prisoners, Colonel William Hoffman, began scouring the northern states, seeking locations to build new camps in order to better manage this sudden influx of prisoners. Hoffman’s latest prisons, Point Lookout and Elmira began the succession of new holding areas in what is now referred to as the “Second Wave of Prisons”.

Don't forget the additional activities at our site on Winsor Ave starting with a

1PM presentation by Dr. Michael Gray, Professor of History, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

2PM Military Drill Demonstrations

3PM Groundbreaking for our newest proposed addition

See you there!

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07/22/2025

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Now in its third year, the Elmira Civil War Symposium, organized by The Friends of the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp and sponsored by Elmira College will take place on Saturday, July 26. The event is free and open to the public; no registration is required.

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Nationville, Tennessee, called about a tour this fall. Fun I tell ya Sept. 25th is the first date tenative. Mark Twain T...
07/21/2025

Nationville, Tennessee, called about a tour this fall. Fun I tell ya Sept. 25th is the first date tenative. Mark Twain Tours tourism mark-eting. We know how. Brent Stermer 11th District Chemung County Legislator Martin Chalk for County Legislature Martin Chalk for County Legislature Jen Furman Deputy Executive, Chemung County NY Chemung County Historical Society John W. Jones Museum I LOVE NEW YORK Julie Ellison Delgrosso Explore Finger Lakes NY FingerLakesRegion Finger Lakes Welcome Center Elmira Civil War Prison Camp Jenny Monroe Roundin' Third Elmira College Corning Museum of Glass

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07/21/2025

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ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) — Elmira’s history of the Civil War is expanding as plans to add a new structure to the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp museum will soon be a reality, as groundbreaking is ex…

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07/19/2025

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When it's Student Orientation II, you end your vacation early, but remain in vacation mode! Of course, Mark Twain is an Aviators kind of guy. Welcome to EC! No trip to the Gannett-Tripp Library is complete without a photo with this literary icon.

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✨ Show Spotlight: Richard Thomas in MARK TWAIN TONIGHT!✨

Tuesday-Wednesday, October 14-15, 2025 @ 7:30pm
Part of The M&T Bank 2025-26 Broadway Season at the Clemens Center!

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Emmy-Award® winning Actor Richard Thomas brings to life “the nation’s one true comic genius” (The New York Times) in Mark Twain Tonight!, written and originally performed by Hal Holbrook. Join the millions who have cheered for the legendary one-man show, bursting with Twain’s “uproariously funny” and “pungently wise” (Time Magazine) humor.

Most recently seen on Broadway in Our Town, on tour as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, on Netflix’s Ozark, and beloved to generations as John-Boy Walton, Richard Thomas is the first and only actor authorized to perform the play since the original.

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