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Oakridge Select Academy. The seminary opened with 11 students [3] on September 5, 1826, [4] at the 1810 [5] Gettysburg Academy building. [6] An 1830 request for proposals was advertised for constructing the "whole building to be 100 feet, viz. the Centre building to be 50 feet square, two stories each 14 feet high--with two wings, 30 by 25 feet, three stories each 9 feet high.
Gettysburg Academy (also known as the Classical Preparatory School and the Gettysburg Gymnasium) [1] was an antebellum boys' boarding school for which the vernacular architecture schoolhouse (now "Reuning Hall") was the "first home" of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg and Gettysburg College. [2] [3]
They rejected proposals from Carlisle, Pennsylvania (at Dickinson College) and Hagerstown [6] and the "Gettysburg Theological Seminary" [7] was established on August 1, 1826. [8] Schmucker was elected the first professor and the seminary opened with eight [9] students on September 5, 1826, [10] in the Gettysburg Academy building, [11] which had ...
The Farnsworth House Inn is a bed and breakfast and tourist attraction located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The building is purported to be haunted, which the business uses in its promotional literature. [1] [2] Apart from being an inn, the building has also served as a tourist home and shop. [citation needed]
The school principal was Miss Carrie Sheads when Early's raids in Pennsylvania arrived at Gettysburg on June 26, 1863, [23] and Oak Ridge Academy was at the July 1 battle area which received Confederate cannon fire. [7] (a captured colonel returned to the school for his sword after escaping from Confederates during their retreat. [6])
The Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center is a Gettysburg National Military Park facility, with a museum about the American Civil War, the 1884 Gettysburg Cyclorama, and the tour center for licensed Battlefield Guides and for buses to see the Gettysburg Battlefield and Eisenhower National Historic Site.
The Dobbin House Tavern, known also as Dobbin House, on 89 Steinwehr Avenue in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is a tavern which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was established in 1776, making it the oldest standing structure in the town limits of Gettysburg. It was built to be a home for Reverend Alexander Dobbin and his family.
Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg. New York: Savas Beatie, 2006. ISBN 978-1-932714-20-3. Wittenberg, Eric J., J. David Petruzzi, and Michael F. Nugent. One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4–14, 1863. New York: Savas Beatie, 2008.