Gettysburg is a borough and the county seat of Adams County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The Battle of Gettysburg (1863) and President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address are named for this town. The town hosts visitors to the National Battlefield in the National Military Park. As of the 2010 census, the borough had a population of 7,620 people.
Gettysburg manufacturing associated with tourism included a late 19th-century foundry that created gun carriages, bridgeworks and cannons for the Battlefield, as well as a construction industry for hotels, stables, and other buildings for tourist services. Early tourist buildings in the borough included museums (like the 1881 Danner Museum), souvenir shops, buildings of the electric trolley (preceded by a horse trolley from the Railroad Station to the Springs Hotel), and stands for hackmen who drove visitors in jitneys (horse-drawn group taxis) on tours. Modern tourist services in the borough include ghost tours, bed and breakfast lodging, and historical interpretation. (source wikipedia)
One hundred and fifty years ago, a small town Gettysburg in southern Pennsylvania became famous for being the site of a bloody battle between the two armies of the American Civil War.
The Gettysburg Day Trip provides both locals and visitors to Washington DC. The chance to see the places where the events of July 1-3, 1863 occurred, with visits to the Farnsworth House and the National Military Park. Our tour group met at DC’s Union Station and began the two hour drive to Gettysburg. Our driver, nicknamed “Bear,” gave us an overview of our day before taking his seat at the wheel
The Farnsworth House was our first stop of the day. The house served as a Confederate base during the Battle of Gettysburg. The building remains riddled with bullet holes all along its exterior walls. Guides, dressed in period uniforms, described some of the experiences an average soldier would have encountered. He even demonstrated how to load and fire a rifled musket.
