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McMillan Woods is a Gettysburg Battlefield forested area used during the Battle of Gettysburg and for camps after the American Civil War, including a CCC camp and the subsequent WWII POW camp at Gettysburg. The woods includes Rifle Pits and Earth Works from the battle. [1] [2]
All of the following are filed under Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania: HABS No. PA-1964, "Theodore Bender House, East of Herr's Ridge Road, West of Buford Avenue" HABS No. PA-5940-A, "Biggs Farm, House" HABS No. PA-1963, "Blocher House, Tablerock Road, off Route 34" HABS No. PA-355, "Bricker Outdoor Bake Oven, Taneytown & Wheat Fields Roads"
Caledonia State Park is a 1,125-acre (455 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Greene Township, Franklin County and Franklin Township, Adams County in southern Pennsylvania.. The park is named for the Caledonia Furnace, an iron furnace that was owned by Thaddeus Stevens beginning in 1837.
"Camp, United States Troops, Gettysburg, PA" ("Gettysburg Camp" colloq.) was 99 acres (0.40 km 2) on three farms and a "three-cornered field" west of the Emmitsburg Rd/Round Top Branch intersection. [45] The first sites used were the Codori farm and "a tract along the Round Top branch". The new buildings took 1 million feet of lumber. 1917-06-02
Seminary Ridge is a dendritic ridge that served as an area of military engagements during the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, which was fought between July 1 and July 3, 1863 in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Seminary Ridge also served as a military installation during World War II.
It is primarily located in Cumberland Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, [2] just outside Gettysburg. Purchased by then- General Eisenhower and his wife Mamie in 1950, the farm served as a weekend retreat when he became president in 1953 and a meeting place for world leaders, and became the Eisenhowers' home after they left the White House ...
The monuments of the Gettysburg Battlefield commemorate the Battle of Gettysburg, which took place on July 1-3, 1863, during the American Civil War. Most are located within Gettysburg National Military Park; others are on private land at battle sites in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Together, they represent "one of the largest ...
The Peach Orchard [2] is a Gettysburg Battlefield site at the southeast corner of the north-south Emmitsburg Road intersection with the Wheatfield Road.The orchard is demarcated on the east and south by Birney Avenue, which provides access to various memorials regarding the "momentous attacks and counterattacks in…the orchard on the afternoon of July 2, 1863."