Fackeln im Sturm - Drehorte - Sonstige und Ungeklärte

Description				Square in New York City of 1842
Filming location				Court on Charleston College, 66 George Street, Charleston, SC
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Episode 01, scene 07

Movie: New York City square Real: Charleston College, Randolph Hall

Movie: New York City square Real: Charleston College, Towell Library

Movie: Gate with George rolling in Real: Charleston College, Porter's Lodge

The historical buildings of Charleston College are arranged around a green space with the former well, still called the "Cistern yard". The round lifted area with the viewers standing on it watching the fist fight is the former and today covered well.

In the background rises the column-supported "Randolph Hall", built 1828 and called after a former college director. To the left is the historic "Towell Library" from 1855. George rolls in through the gate of the "Porter's Lodge", the former home of the college housekeeper.

Charleston College, 66 George Street Google Maps

Areal view of the Cistern Yard and the arrangement of buildings around it (© Google Maps):

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The Catholic Church In Lehigh Station

Description				Catholic Church in Lehigh Station
Filming location				Outside: Old Saint Andrew's Parish Church, 2604 Ashly River Road, Charleston, SC; inside: unknown
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Episode 03, scene 04

For the exterior view of the church for George and Constance to have their wedding, Old Saint Andrew's Parish Church in northwestern Charleston, SC was used.

2604 Ashly River Road Google Maps

The filming location of the inside scene is unidentified by now.

Movie: catholic church, Lehigh Station Real: Old Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, SC

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The Abandoned Chapel "All Saints Chapel"

Description				ruins of All Saints Chapel, near Charleston, SC
Filming location				Backdrop
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Episode 02, scene 26, 45 Episode 03, scene 11, 37 Episode 04, scene 25, 29

Movie: All Saints Chapel Movie: All Saints Chapel

According to a person involved, the chapel has been a backdrop, built near Natchez, MS. When additional filmings were necessary during the production phase, the chapel was rebuilt on a ranch near Saugus, CA.

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The Field Hospital In Northern Virrginia (1862-64)

Description				Wooden and damaged church and area used as U.S. field hospital, Northern VA
Filming location				Backdrop, probably near Camden, AR
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Episode 09, scene 34 Episode 10, scene 12, 13, 17, 18, 23, 30, 31, 32

The exact filming location of the field hospital is not identified by now. But there is a press release photograph with Patrick Swayze and Kristy Alley sitting together at the McCollum-Chidester House in Camden, AR (see below). In all the seasons, the two characters played together only at Belvedere, the Philadelphia city hall, at Mont Royal (all locations in Charleston, SC), at Philadelphia depot (backdrop at the Reader Railroad, AR) and the field hospital during the Civil War. Some sources say that filming took place at the McCollum-Chidester House as well (not mentioning which ones). That is why it is possible that the wooden church backdrop was erected on grounds near that house, where Virgilia nurses Orry's bullet wound.

McCollum-Chidester-Haus, Camden, AR Kristy Ally and Patrick Swayze on the porch

The McCollum-Chidester House, 926 Washington Street, Camden, AR, was raised in 1847 by merchant Peter McCollum and aquired in 1858 by John T. Chidester, using it as headquarters and supply station for his stagecoach line from Alabama to Yuma, AZ. In 1963, the Ouachita County Historical Society bought the estate as a museum.

http://www.ouachitacountyhistoricalsociety.org/index.html

926 W Washington Street Google Maps

Location Overview

Entrance to the left, office corner to the upper right. The doctor's and helper's tents were to the left outside of the plan. Orry escapes through the bottom gap in the wall.

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The City Hall Of Philadelphia

Hall For James' Speech In New Orleans

Description				Several halls and lobbies, Philadelphia, PA, New Orleans, LA and Richmond, VA
Filming location				Dock Street Theater, Saal, Church Street, SC
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Episode 03, scene 08, 09 (Virgilia's speech in Philadelphia) Episode 05, scene 11 (James Huntoon's speech in New Orleans) Episode 07, scene 18 (Ashton and James arriving to the President's ball)

Movie: entry of the marching band Real: Dock Street Theater, view from the stage

Movie: Speeches from the stage Real: Dock Street Theater, the stage

Movie: attendees on the gallery Real: Dock Street Theater, the gallery 1937

The abolitionists gathering of 1847 in Philadelphia city hall as well as James' secession speech in New Orleans were filmed inside the historic Dock Street Theater in Charleston, SC. For the building see with Charleston.

Movie: Virginia and Sam Greene Real: stairy to the gallery

Green's courtesy to Virgilia after her speech was also filned in Dock Street Theater, this time on the lobby stairs to the gallery. The opening to this scene, a stone arched gallery with a sign reading "Ford's Theater" does not fit in here.

Church Street with Dock Street Theater Google Maps

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Assylum, Washington

Description				Assylum for the mental insane, in or at Washington, D.C.
Filming location				Old Prison, 21 Magazine Street, Charleston, SC
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Episode 12, scene 17

Film: Irrenanstalt von außen Real: Old Prison, Charleston, Außenansicht

This outdoor filming location was the former state prison of Charleston, SC. The main building extends to the octagonal cell tower shown here. The building was constructen in 1802 and gradually extended until 1939. It can be visited today. The outer wodden stairs had been altered since the time of filming. The real main entrance is to the other side (see aerial view © Google Maps):

Old Prison, 21 Magazine Street Google Maps

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Appomattox Court House, VA

Description				House of Wilmer McLean, Appomattox Court House, VA
Filming location				Appomattox Court House Historical Site, Appomattox, VA
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Episode 12, scene 17

Movie: Appomattox Court House, VA Historical: Appomattox Court House 1865

Movie: Appomattox Court House, VA Real: Appomatox Court House (rebuilt)

The historically exactly correct played proceedings of the surrender talks between the leading Southern general Robert E. Lee and the General in Chief of the Union, Ulysses S. Grant, was filmed at the historic location on the re-erected house where the actual meeting took place in Appomattox Court House, VA.

On April 8th, 1865, the leeding generals of the North and South, UIysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, met in the family McLean's farm house in the small village of Appomattox Court House for consultation upon Lee's surrender. The farm house was selected because the spacy salon deemed feasable and because at this Palm Sunday the court house itself was closed. MeLean's house was built in 1848. Wilmer McLean bought it early 1863, but sold it off in 1867 when not being able to pay the interrests. In public auction, the builing went to Mrs. Ragland who sold it to Myron Dunlap in 1891. Dunlap dismanteled the building in 1893, wanted to rebuilt it in Washington, D.C. as part of a Civil War museum, but defaulted on financing it. Finally, the National Park Administration was able to recover some of the rotting parts and put it back into the reconstructed site that was dedicated and opened to the public on April 16th, 1950 by Lee's grand grandson and Grant's grandson. Since 1935, the area was declared a National Historical Park and some of the historical houses had been re-buit. It lays about 3 miles east of today's Appomattox, VA.

Appomattox Court House Historical Site Google Maps

Interresting detail: Wilmer McLean not owny owned the house in which the Civil War by Lee's surrender factually ended, but he also owned part of the field where the first big battle of the war, the First Battle of Manassas / Bull Run, VA, took place. This originated the saying: "The war began in McLean's kitchen garden and ended in his living room."

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Railroad Scenes - Reader Railroad, AR

Beschreibung				Several scenes with a railroad, at the track, in the train running, or on the engine
Filming location				Reader Railroad, trains and track, Reader, AR, north of Camden, AR
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Episide 01, scene 08 Episide 03, scene 03 Episide 05, scene 14, 17, 18, 19 Episide 06, scene 40, 41 Episide 10, scene 02

Movie: railroad 1842 Movie: railroad 1842

Movie: railroad 1859 Movie: railroad 1860 - "Philadelphia depot"
(backdrop, set up in the woods - see entry arc!)

Movie: railroad 1864 - military transport Movie: railroad 1864 - military transport

Location overview " Philadelphia depot"

The platforms are below the columned arcs supporting the roof. The second (lower) platform is only used by the older Southener and Orry on his trip to Lehigh Station at the beginning of the war. On the upper left is the passenger entrance and the ticket counter, where Virgilia entered the station in another scene.

Reader Railroad, Arkansas

The Reader Railroad, running through Nevada and Ouachita counties in the vincinits of Camden, AR, was one of the last lines with steam service. It is out of services today, but it had sone much für the area and was used for the tv series North and South.

The line was built in 1889 under the name of Sayre Narrow Gauge Railroad to haul freshly cut trees from south of the Reader river at Nevada and Ouachita counties border to the sawmill at Gurdon (Nevada County) besides the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad. In 1910, the railroad was bought by McVay Lumber Company, running it by themselves from 1913 and extending it to other wood cutting areas. A. S. Johnson bought the sawmill in 1921 and modernized the railroad in 1925, now being called after the small village and postal station and being placed under the Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company. By the same time, it offered public cargo service to the oilfields near Waterloo (Nevada County) reached by the tracks.

The small railroad line carried logs and cargo alongside of creeks and into the side valleys until the holding dissolved in 1950. Tom M. Long bought the railroad and began a modernization. He upgradet it for passenger and cargo service, but due to the oil crises beginnen in the 1970s, the oil refinery in Waterloo had to close. The remaining cargo and the declining tourist passenger traffic could not keep the line afloat. Long abandoned his plans and the line was sold off to local business men who took care of it's preservation. They themselves sold all properties to today's owner, R. A. Grigsby, in 1980, who laid focus on the historical role of the Reader Railroad during the development of Arkansas.

When bigger and more efficient means of transport were available for logs and oil, the line revolved into a tourist attraction. The owners, who already owned some historically equipped passenger cars, organized three steam engines, two oil burners (from 1907 and 1913) and one wood burner (from 1907), as well as more passenger cars, an open inspection car, a flat car, covered cargo car, tank car and two luggage cars with cast iron stoves.

The railroad was run again as 70 to 80 years befire. With a maximum speed of just 10 miles per hour, it took around 100,000 tourists to a trip through the forests, hills and valleys of Nevada and Ouachita counties. At the rail's end, the engine was turned by hand on a turntable and the luggage car set to the end for the return journey. The whole trip of around 5 to 7 miles took 2 hours.

In 1985, ABC Television and Warner Brothers came to Arkansas and used the cars and depots of the railroad that were extended by ABC for this, to make filming of railroad scenes for the series North and South. More movies with the railroad were 3:10 To Yuna and There Will Be Blood in 2007. After that, the railroad fell in disuse.

http://www.readerrailroad.com

Eisenbahn-Depot nahe Reader, AR Google Maps

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Libby Prison, Richmond, VA

Description				Libby Prison, Confederate prison in Richmond, VA
Filming location				Unknown
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Episode 10, scene 24, 38, 39 Episode 11, scene 02, 04

Movie: Libby Prison, reception of new prisoners Movie: Libby Prison, a bunk room

The prison was established in a three equal floor storage building at Tabacco Row, Richmond, VA, that was erected in 1845 to 1852 by John Elders Sr. for drying of tabacco leafes. It consisted mostly of rooms in 100 by 40 inches with narrow ceilings and meager airing. After Elders' death, the completed buildings remained unused. Captain Luther Libby and his son George W. Libby from Maine rented the west wing of it as a storage facility for her shipping enterprise until they abandoned their Richmond business at the outbreak of the war.

After the first Battle at Bull Run / Manassas, the Confederacy urgently needed housing for lots of prisoners of war. General Winder ordered the Libby storage building to be converted within 48 hours. Because of the haste, even the name plate on the outer wall remaind and led to the name of "Libby Prison". Commanding officer was for the longest time of its existence Major Thomas "Dick" Turner.

Many prisoners died in 1863 to 1864 on bad sanitary equipment and overcrowding, so that Libby was the second most notorios place in numbers of deaths after Andersonville Prison in Georgia. The building was suited for 1,200 prisoners, but the number was often exceeded significantly. Until it's redesignation, it housed more than 50,000 people.

There were many escape attempts, with some being successful. The biggest escape occured on Feb 9th, 1864, when 109 prisoners under Colonel Thomas E. Rose and Major A. G. Hamilton completed a tunnel to freedom. 48 were re-captured, 59 escaped to Union lines, 2 drowned in the James River.

Libby Prison ("Libby" sign on the corner) during the war, Former Libby Prison after the war. There are signs of fire
tents of guards in the front at several places of the facade.

1864, Union prisoners were moved to Macon, GA to use Libby Prison for Confederate soldiers who disobayed or otherwise conflicted with the law. After the fall of Richmond by the Union on April 3rd, 1865, Libby Prison served the imprisonment of Confederate officers until 1868. The housing conditions were greatly improved in comparison to them during the war.

In 1880, the Southern Fertilizer Company bought the building. Nine years later, it passed over to the Candy Producer Charles F. Gunther, who made it dismanteled and rebuilt in Chicago, IL as a war museum. In lack of visitors for keeping it up, it was dismanteled again and piece by piece sold as souveniers.

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Hazard Iron, Lehigh Station, PA

Description				Hazard Iron Works, foundry, Lehigh Station, PA
Filming location				loading court, former depot, 220 State Street, Natchez, MS
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Episode 01, scene 27 Episode 03, scene 12

Movie: court yard overview Movie: boiler house (center) and factory hall (left)

Movie: boiler house Movie: workers flats

Filming for the foundry took place at the abandoned railroad depot of Natchez, MS at 220 State Street intersecting South Canal Street (Highway 84). The middle building with the boilers, the factory sign and the smoking chimneys were set up as a backdrop, also where the explosion took place. The existing buildings today are part of the Natchez National Historical Park.

Natchez Historical Park Google Maps

Aerial view overview © Google Maps Aerial view of the depot © Google Maps

View from State Street - the position of the backdrop middle buiding - into the court yard © Google Street View

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Churubusco And Mexico City, Mexico

Description				Churubusco, Mexico and Mexico City, Mexico
Filming location				Area and backdrops near Natchez, MS
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Episode 02, scene 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37

The Churubusco battlefield with the bridge was set up as a big backdrop on a huge farm not far from Natchez, MS. The particular farm is not identified yet.

The buildings of "Mexico City" were an backdrop also.

This is the same building in two different angles of view (the outer stairs in the left picture can be seen in the background of the right picture)

This "Cantina" was placed at the side street George came from in the picture above left.

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Augusta Barclay's Farm, Northern Virginia

Description				Farm of Augusta Barclay, Northern Virginia
Filming location				Outdoor set, Golden Oak Ranch outdoor studio, Newhall, CA
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Episode 07, scene 13, 14 Episode 08, scene 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Episode 10, scene 34, 35 Episode 11, scene 35, 36 Episode 12, scene 19, 20

Movie: Augusta Barclay's farm, VA Real: backdrop on Golden Oak Ranch, CA

This series of scenes was filmed seperately for inside and outside scenes. The outdoor view was a backdrop on the Golden Oak Ranch, Placerita Canyon Road, 91321 Newhall, CA, aquired by the Disney Studios in 1959. By the way, on this place was found the first gold of California on March 9th, 1842 by rancher Francisco Lopez. The "farm house" consisted only by the front and side facades as well as the propped-up roof. It was originally constructed for the tv-series "Boone". At a fan visit in 2006, the kitchen extension, the outer chimney, the paddock in front of the house as well as the stable and barn were already removed. Newer areal views show the whole building disappeared.

The areal view shows the roof of the "farm house". The veranda is located on the upper edge in the shadow of the trees, above that the former paddock. The non-existant kitchen extension and the outbuildings are marked in red. The characters in the movie are approaching not using the driveway but out of the woods to the left (red arrow). © Google Maps

Golden Oak Ranch, location of the former backdrop Google Maps

According to a familiar person, the interior scenes were filmed in downtown Los Angeles. It is possible, that they used Stage 26 of the nearby Warner Brothers Burbank Studios (see below). The flips between inside and outside views are exceptionally well made and makes the differend locations practically unvisible for viewers.

Location Overview "Barclay-Farm" (iuside and outside put together)

Ground floor: kitchen (extension on far left), table sitting area, parlor, stairs, veranda, stable (upper left)

Upper floor: corridor, Augusta's bedroom (left, with balcony)

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Warner Brothers Studios

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios

4000 Warner Boulevard

Burbank, CA 91522

www2.warnerbros.com/wbsf/#/sndstgextsets/exteriorsets/

The installation consists of 35 hangars for filming with original sounds, as well as about 12 outdoor sets for differend time periods with streets, houses and facades. The following scenes can be attributed to these outdooor sets:

Street Scenes In "Lehigh Station" - Outdoor Set "Midwest Street"

Discription				Lehigh Station, PA, in the streets
Filming locations				Outdoor set, Burbank, CA
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Episode 01, scene 26 Episode 03, scene (04) Episode 05, sclge 23 Episode 06, scene 42, 47 Episode 08, scene 37

Movie: opening to "Lehigh Station" Real: Set with bay window house on intersection

This street on the outsoor set "Midwest Street" of Warner Brothers in Burbank, CA is used for many scenes and openings of Lehigh Station. Here, George and Orry ride a carriage to Belvedere on her West Point vacation. Geoge and Constance are watching the election parade in 1860, and Stanley and Isabel drop off Maude before seeing Mr. Morgan. The bay windows are used in the uprising scene after the fall of Fort Sumter, as a Jefferson Davis-puppet is dropped from there hanging on a rope.

Movie: George and Orry in 1844, having turned left Real: same intersection, view from the pavillon

Movie: pavillon and church steeple in left background Real: opposit the row of shops: pavillon and church

Movie: bay windows n uprising scene 1861 Real, detailed view of bay windows

Movie: carriage halts for war help committee Real: Set, same place (center with narrow front roof)

https://www.wbspecialevents.com/portfolio_page/midwest-street-2/

Warner Bros. outdoor location "Midwest Street", Burbank, CA Google Maps

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Street Scene In "Richmond" - Outdoor Set "Midwest Street"

Description				Ladys boarding house in Richmond, VA
Filming location				Outdoor set, Burbank, CA
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Episode 08, scene 40

In a side street of the main set from above, there is the backdrop of the house where Burdetta meets Orry during the war.

Movie: Orry at the front steps Real: Film set

Movie: Orry at the door Real: Film set (door has another color)

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Opening To Virgilia's Prison Scene - Outdoor Set "Embassy Courtyard and NY Park"

Description				Street at court yard and prison, Washington, DC
Drehort real				Outdoor set, Burbank, CA
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Episode 12, scene 27

This set was only used in the opening where George walks to the Washington jail to see Virgilia before her execution.

Movie: court yard "Criminal Court House" Real: backdrop "Courtyard"

Movie: Jail entrance Real: backdrop "Embassy" (to the left)

https://www.wbspecialevents.com/portfolio_page/embassy-courtyard-and-new-york-park/

Warner Bros. Outdoor Set "New York Street", Burbank, CA Google Maps

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Unidentified Locations

Movie: opening, Washington Movie: Senator Edwards' office, Washington

Movie: Madame Conti' establishment Movie: Madame Conti's establishment

Location Overview "Madame Conti's Establishment"

The group of seats for James, Bent and their followers is to the lower right, Madame Conti's office is to the upper left.

Movie: Hospital, corridor, to the right the service hatch to the office Movie: view to a sick room

Location overview "Hospital Washington"

Miss Dix' office to the upper right, below that the office of Mrs. Riley.

Movie: Greene's house, view to the parlor Movie: Greene's house, bedroom at upper floor

Location overview "Greene's house, Washington"

Upper left the hall, stairs and parlor. Upper right Greene's bedroom at the upper floor. Lower left Greene's dining room (used with Virgilia in episode 5). Lower right Virgilia's appartment sponsored by Greene.

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