Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Tony DeLacy is our host for our Benner’s Hill series. Tony came to Gettysburg from the Philadelphia area, and has been a Licensed Battlefield Guide since 2004. This view was taken facing northwest at appro[...]
Paster Stephen R. Herr became pastor at Gettysburg’s Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1999. Today he takes on a visit to the nave, or sanctuary, or central section of the church. This view was taken facing southeast at approximately 5:45 [...]
Mathew Brady’s photograph of Union fortifications on Culp’s Hill. A couple of trees in this photograph are still standing as we have shown on our post of December 5, 2008. This photograph was taken facing south circa July 15, 1863. Our C[...]
Tracks from the Gettysburg Harrisburg Railroad cross Hancock Avenue on Cemetery Ridge just north of the monument to Dow’s Maine Battery. The George Weikert Farm is in the background. Big Round Top is above the George Weikert Farm. Weikert Hill[...]
Most of the trees that were on the James McAllister Farm between the Baltimore Pike and Spangler’s Spring have been cut and ground up/mulched. Powers’ Hill is in the background. This view was taken facing southwest at approximately 8:0[...]
National Park Service employees Ray Singley (left) and Ray Miller work on the west foundation of the William Patterson House along the Taneytown Road. This view was taken facing east at approximately 8:45 AM on Monday, April 13, 2009. Work continued[...]
The new color of the Comfort Inn will be the light color/sand color/cream color on each end of the building. We will show you how this color appears from different parts of the battlefield. This view was taken facing northwest at approximately 7:4[...]
In today’s trolley post, the trolley tracks came out of Rose’s Woods towards Plum Run in the area between Devil’s Den and Big Round Top. Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr is striking his classic “trolley pose[...]
Originally named “Christ’s Church,” Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church was one of three Lutheran institutions founded in Gettysburg by Samuel Simon Schmucker and colleagues. It was preceded by the Lutheran Theological Seminary, fou[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Denny Forwood begins our series on Gettysburg Dental stories. In the 1840s, estimates placed the number of dentists in the north at about 5,500 with a little over 400 of them coming from formal dental colleges. [...]