WOW.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Sachs Covered Bridge - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachs_Covered_Bridge

   The Sachs Covered Bridge is a Town truss covered bridge. The truss design was developed by Ithiel Town of Connecticut and consists of wooden beams "cris-crossed" to form a lattice. [4] The bridge was one of few remaining Town truss bridges in Pennsylvania. [5] The bridge is 100 feet (30 m) long and 15 feet 4 inches (4.67 m) wide.

3. Cemetery Ridge - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetery_Ridge

   Cemetery Ridge is a geographic feature in Gettysburg National Military Park, south of the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that figured prominently in the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 to July 3, 1863. It formed a primary defensive position for the Union Army during the battle, roughly the center of what is popularly known as the "fish-hook" line.

4. Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran_Theological...

   In 1868, some seminary land was purchased for the Gettysburg Springs Railroad (now Springs Avenue) and the faculty expanded [clarification needed] to a fourth professor (James W. Richard) in 1889. In 1895, during the battlefield commemorative era, the Gettysburg Park Commission telfordized the seminary's north–south avenue (resurfaced in 1927 ...

5. Rock Creek (Monocacy River tributary) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Creek_(Monocacy_River...

   Rock Creek is an 18.9-mile-long (30.4 km) tributary of the Monocacy River in south-central Pennsylvania and serves as the border between Cumberland and Mount Joy townships. . Rock Creek was used by the Underground Railroad (at McAllister's Mill, "slaves would slosh through the water to throw off the tracking dogs that were pursuing them") and flows near several Gettysburg Battlefield sites ...

6. Herbst Woods - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbst_Woods

   Herbst Woods. Herbst Woods [a] or sometimes called McPherson Woods, now known as Reynolds Woods, [2] is a wooded area west of McPherson Ridge near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The small wooded area was the location of a military engagement during the first day at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. The battle near the woods occurred around ...

7. 1913 Gettysburg reunion - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913_Gettysburg_reunion

   The 1913 Gettysburg reunion was a Gettysburg Battlefield encampment of American Civil War veterans for the Battle of Gettysburg 's 50th anniversary. The June 29–July 4 gathering of 53,407 veterans (~8,750 Confederate) [1] was the largest ever Civil War veteran reunion. [2] All honorably discharged veterans in the Grand Army of the Republic ...