David Wills’ Law Office is a space with few displays. The lack of displays doesn’t mean that some of them aren’t interesting. This view was taken facing northeast at approximately 4:30 PM on Wednesday, February 18, 2009. We conti[...]
In our two previous posts on Benner’s Hill we have discussed the Confederate artillery placement. Today we will describe the Union artillery that would fire to here at Cemetery Hill on the right (marked by the light green/light blue water tank[...]
West Howard Avenue, which runs between the Mummasburg Road (shown in the foreground) and the Carlisle Road, is being asphalted this week. The contractors, Kinsley Construction, were sensitive to our taking pictures of the roadwork. This view was t[...]
A photograph of the Rosensteel Museum, forerunner of the National Park Service Electric Map Visitor Center Museum. This photograph is courtesy of Andy and Lucy Jurcak. This photograph was taken facing northwest in the 1920s. In today’s post,[...]
The Gettysburg Witness Tree (Honey Locust Tree) in the Gettysburg National Cemetery is showing its leaves once again this year. The National Park Service decision to allow the tree to remain after it was damaged by heavy winds during a storm appears[...]
On June 26, 1863, Confederates under Major-General Jubal Early occupied the town of Gettysburg. They began rounding up Gettysburg’s African Americans in order to take them to the South and into slavery. Those who were caught were lined up on[...]
Major-General Daniel Sickles (1819-1914) was born in New York, New York. He became a lawyer and a force in the Democratic Party. He became a state senator, and a United States Congressman. He murdered his wife’s lover, Philip Barton Key, the[...]
In today’s trolley post, Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr shows where the Gettysburg Electric Trolley came out of the woods directly behind him on the north side of Little Round Top, and south of the Wheatfield Road (in the fo[...]
In today’s trolley post, we explore the Gettysburg Electric Trolley’s location in Plum Run Valley (Valley of Death) and how it climbed the north slope of Little Round Top. This view was taken facing east between 1893 and 1902. We are c[...]
The apple trees at the McMillan Orchard were replanted on April 11, 2009. The McMillan House is the white building in the background. The subdivision Colt Park is in the left background. West Confederate Avenue is on the right. This view was taken[...]