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Private Weekday Tours
Tours are not available on weekdays so scientists can continue their work preserving the Hunley for future generations and discovering her true history (except for pre-planned private group tours and school visits).

Tickets ordered in advance are $18.00 for adults and $10.00 for youth ages 6-12, plus a service charge and can be purchased online here. Tickets for Friends of the Hunley members are $12.00 and senior citizens and military are discounted to $15.00. Children age 5 and under are free. Tickets can be ordered online in advance up until midnight the day before your tour. You can purchase tickets the day of your tour at the entrance gate. These tickets do not have a service charge.

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The 19th century architectural gem is located near the main entrance to Huntley Meadows Park. Historic Huntley is on the National Register of Historic Places, the Virginia Landmarks Register and the Fairfax County Inventory of Historic Sites. Over the years, Historic Huntley was used as a summer retreat, a grain farm, encampment for Civil War troops of the 3rd Michigan Infantry, and eventually was converted to a dairy farm. Ownership changed several times, and in later years, after being abandoned, the house endured considerable vandalism.

The Park Authority obtained the house and its surrounding 2.5 acres in 1989, and for the next two decades it was open only during semiannual events and for school and scout tours. A renovation of the manor house was completed in 2012. The buildings now are open for scheduled programs and tours as well as Saturday tours from late April through October.

The renovation got a boost from a $100,000 grant from the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures program, which was created by NPS to preserve significant historic properties and collections. The grant helped fund the site's extensive structural restoration work. The Park Authority provided several million dollars towards preservation and redevelopment of the site through two Park Bond programs. In 2017, the Tenant House on the site was renovated to serve as a small visitor center. This allowed for expanded historic and cultural programming.

Step into the past at Historic Huntley where history comes to life within the walls of this meticulously preserved estate. Explore a journey though time and witness the captivating stories that shaped this landmark.

Public and scout programs are held at Historic Huntley. Staff at nearby Huntley Meadows Park oversees the historic site. Contact Huntley Meadows at 703-768-2525 for information about Historic Huntley.

Friends of Historic Huntley is a not-for-profit organization devoted to preserving and protecting Historic Huntley. The group has advocated for the site for more than 20 years. For membership information, call the park or visit the Friends of Historic Huntley online.

On July 17, 2023, in Hunley v. Instagram, LLC, No. 22-15293, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed the "server test," which protects websites from copyright liability for embedding images that are hosted on another website's server. The server test has been the law in the Ninth Circuit since 2007, but in recent years it has come under attack in lower courts in other jurisdictions. While the Hunley decision confirms this binding precedent in the Ninth Circuit for now, online publishers should be aware that the server test may soon be reconsidered again in an en banc rehearing or possibly by the Supreme Court.

The photographers raised several arguments against application of the server test, and the Ninth Circuit rejected each. First, the photographers argued that the server test should be limited to the specific factual context of Perfect 10, i.e., "search engines or other automated, algorithmic indexing platforms." Id. But the court held that "Perfect 10 did not restrict the application of the Server Test to a specific type of website." Id. at 20.

Next, the photographers argued that the server test is inconsistent with the Copyright Act. But the Ninth Circuit stated that it "will not consider these arguments in any detail because they are foreclosed by Perfect 10." Id. at 24. The court explained that it was "not free to overrule Perfect 10 outside of an en banc proceeding unless there has been a change in the statute or an intervening Supreme Court decision." Id.

The photographers claimed that the Supreme Court's decision in American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo, Inc., 573 U.S. 431 (2014), was such an intervening decision. Aereo concerned whether a company's device that employed numerous small antennae, with each antenna receiving and transmitting television broadcasts to an individual subscriber, was "publicly performing" the broadcasts under the Copyright Act. In holding that it was, the Supreme Court emphasized high-level practicalities over "under the hood" technicalities, refusing to allow a technological "difference, invisible to subscriber and broadcaster alike," to "transform a system that is for all practical purposes" an infringer into a noninfringer. Aereo, 573 U.S. at 444.

Finally, the photographers and their amici raised numerous policy arguments against the server test. But the Ninth Circuit panel stated that they "are not the policymakers." Id. at 33. The court repeatedly stated that if the photographers disagreed with Perfect 10, they would have to seek rehearing en banc, review by the Supreme Court, or a legislative amendment. Id. at 25, 33.

Having adhered to Perfect 10, the Ninth Circuit proceeded to affirm the dismissal of the complaint under the server test. Since the embedding websites did not display a copy of the images, there was no direct infringement and, consequently, no secondary infringement by Instagram. Id. at 34.

For now, Hunley confirms that the server test remains the law in the Ninth Circuit. But the Ninth Circuit may soon revisit the issue in an en banc proceeding. Indeed, the photographers have already indicated their intent to petition for a rehearing en banc. See Appellants' Unopposed Motion for Extension of Time to File Petition for Rehearing En Banc, Hunley v. Instagram, LLC, No. 22-15293 (9th Cir. July 20, 2023), ECF No. 57-2.

Of course, Hunley is only binding in the Ninth Circuit, which is little comfort to nationwide online services that may face lawsuits throughout the country for embedding. For all these reasons, websites that rely on embedding should continue to proceed with caution, and should consider securing a license and carefully assess the strength of other defenses like fair use before embedding others' content.

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The 40-foot wreck of the "South's Secret Weapon" was discovered buried in up to four feet of sand and shells off the coast of Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, in May of 1995, after a 14-year search by a team funded by author Clive Cussler. After five years of investigation, measurement, and documentation, professionals from the Naval Historical Center's Underwater Archaeology Branch, the National Park Service, the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, and other organizations combined efforts to raise the Hunley and transport her to shore for study. In August 2000, slings were slipped under the hull of the sub, which was supported by foam pillows, and attached to a truss; the entire wreck was then lifted by crane onto a transport barge.

Built by some of the best engineers of their time, the thin, cigar-shaped H.L. Hunley, named for her second captain who died with his crew during sea trials, was manned by a crew of nine: eight to turn the hand-cranked propeller and one to steer the vessel.

In August 1863, the Hunley was dispatched from Alabama to serve in defense of Charleston. During the night of February 17, 1864, the sub set out on her maiden attack--her target, the U.S.S. Housatonic, a 1,240-ton Union sloop-of-war. The Hunley rammed the wooden hull of the Housatonic with her harpoon torpedo, packed with explosive powder and mounted on a long iron pole extending from her bow; the charge was detonated at a distance by pulling a rope as the sub backed away. The Union ship sank in three minutes, taking five crewmen with her. Reports from Housatonic survivors confirmed the success of the attack strategy. After realizing that the submersible was not a porpoise or harmless debris, as was first assumed, the alarm was raised and officers on deck fired their rifles at the sub. The officers' last sighting of the Hunley was as she reversed her course and headed for shore. She never arrived.

In 1995 archaeologists found the Hunley almost intact except for a hole in the forward hatch. It is believed that the sub quickly became covered and filled with sediment soon after she sank. Items expected to be preserved inside the hull include navigational gear, steering mechanisms, pumps, a compass, a depth gauge, various tools, and firearms. Remains of the crew and their personal effects are also hoped to be recovered. If indeed found, these remains may help to determine the final moments of the ship, as well as the identity of the crew and the precise cause of their deaths. Following analysis, the crew will be buried with military honors.