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Gettysburg (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ t i z b ɜːr ɡ /; locally / ˈ ɡ ɛ t ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ / ⓘ) [4] is a borough in Pennsylvania and the county seat of Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. [5] As of the 2020 census , the borough had a population of 7,106 people.
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PA 194 (King Street) – Hanover, Taneytown: Intersection of PA 97 and PA 194: Gettysburg: US 15 (Baltimore Street/Steinwehr Avenue) to US 30 – Harrisburg, Frederick, York, Chambersburg: Northern terminus of US 140; intersection of Baltimore Street and US 15 Business (Steinwehr Avenue) 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
Pennsylvania Route 134 (PA 134), also called Taneytown Road (/ ˈ t ɔː n i t aʊ n / TAW-nee-town), is a north–south, two-lane state highway in Adams County, Pennsylvania. It runs from the Maryland border at the Mason–Dixon line in Mount Joy Township north to U.S. Route 15 Business (US 15 Bus.) in Gettysburg .
The Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District is a district of contributing properties and over 1000 historic contributing structures and 315 historic buildings, located in Adams County, Pennsylvania. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1975. [ 7 ]
In 1895, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ceded jurisdiction of Wheatfield Road to the War Department, [10] and in 1900 two cast iron identification tablets were placed [where?] to label the road. [ 11 ] : '00 The Gettysburg Electric Railway tracks were removed from the Wheatfield Road in 1917 and the road was repaired in 1931. [ 12 ]
Pennsylvania Route 116 (PA 116) is an east–west route located Adams and York counties in southern Pennsylvania. The route begins at PA 16 in Carroll Valley in Adams County, heading northeast through rural areas and passing through Fairfield. PA 116 passes through the historic Civil War town of Gettysburg, where the Battle of Gettysburg was held.
Abraham Brian (colloquially Bryan as early as 1891) [9] was a free black man who purchased the farm in 1857 just south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (his wife died soon and he married a third wife.) The farm included an additional farm dwelling along the Emmitsburg Road. [10]