Program

NYS Historic

Subject

Building

Location

32 N State St, Nunda, NY 14517, USA

Lat/Long

42.580664664219, -77.942546216386

Grant Recipient

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Abraham Lincoln Camp 6 Rochester NY

John J. Carter was a 2^nd Lieutenant with company B, 33^rd New York Infantry Volunteers from 1861-1862. He was conferred a Medal of Honor in 1897 for distinguished gallantry in the Civil War.

The United States Army Civil War Medal of Honor Index cites, “While in command of a detached company, seeing his regiment thrown into confusion by a charge of the enemy, without orders made a countercharge upon the attacking column and checked the assault. Penetrated within the enemy’s lines at night and obtained valuable information.” The location for this event was Antietem, on September 17, 1862.

In 1908, he gave the building which he owned to the Nunda Memorial Hall Corporation, which represented the Craig W. Wadsworth Post No. 417 of the Grand Army of the Republic. There was an elaborate dedication ceremony held on July 15, 1908, in which there was entertainment and speeches made before John J. Carter presented the deed to Joseph Lovell, the president of the Nunda Memorial Hall Corporation (“Carter Memorial Hall Dedicated”, The Nunda News, July 18, 1908). The building was used by the G.A.R post until they dissolved in 1922. Today it houses the American Legion Post #0333.