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R.E.S.P.E.C.T. please...
Here at Gettysburg, and all tourist areas around the country, Summer has begun and people are traveling and they're out and about. Every year, come about April, the first tour busses begin to come...
View ArticleRESPECT
I posted the article quite a long time ago about respecting the battlefield and it still is an appropriate request now, in 2013. The 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg is upon us now and...
View Article2013 - A Year of Changes
Gettysburg has been evolving over the last decade into what the historians see as a step in the right direction for the world to experience what it was like here in 1863. Many changes have taken place...
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The Cyclorama Building
In May 2013 the Cyclorama Building which housed the famous Picketts Charge painting was demolished after a court battle lasting several years. The court ruled in favor of the NPS (National Park...
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The New Paved Walkway on Taneytown Road
Bulldozer busily working at tearing down what once was a home situated on Taneytown Road. This ranchhome was part of the landscape here even when the old Fantasyland Amusement Park was open in the area...
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This is where the house sat. The only thing left is the blacktop driveway. Those trees will most likely come down as well.
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If you stood where the front yard of the house was, you can see the new stretch of the new paved pedestripan walkway that begins at Mead's Headquarters and continues on Taneytown Road past the entrance...
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Down in this depression is where the foundation of the house was. A bulldozer pushes the blocks and debris of the house to make it ready to haul away.
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The occupants of this house enjoyed such views of the battlefield as the Pennsylvania Memorial, seen in the center of the photograph as well as a good expanse of the fields towards Hancock Avenue.
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