:Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

File:Lincolnatgettysburg.jpg Abraham Lincoln (center, facing camera) delivered the Gettysburg Address, considered one of the famous speeches in American history.{{cite book |last=Conant |first=Sean |date=2015 |title=The Gettysburg Address: Perspectives on Lincoln's Greatest Speech |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_bmyBwAAQBAJ&pg=PR9 |location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press |page=ix |isbn=978-0-19-022745-6}}{{cite book |last=Holsinger |first=M. Paul |date=1999 |title=War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oe4AOVHkJ9oC&pg=PA102 |location=Westport, CT |publisher=Greenwood Press |page=102 |isbn=978-0-313-29908-7}}]]

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In 1760, Irishman Samuel Gettys settled at the Shippensburg-Baltimore and Philadelphia-Pittsburgh crossroads, in what was then western York County, and established a tavern frequented by soldiers and traders. In 1786, his son James purchased 116 acres of his land, divided it up into 220 lots and sold them, and is thus considered the founder of Gettysburgh.{{cite web |url=https://www.achp.gov/preserve-america/community/gettysburg-pennsylvania |title=Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |publisher=Advisory Council on Historic Preservation}} The borough boundary was established, with the Dobbin House tavern (established in 1776) sitting in the southwest.

Beginning in 1790, a movement seeking to split off the western portion of York County into a separate county had begun. A commission was drawn up to fix the site of the new county's seat; they ultimately chose a location in Strabane Township (now Straban Township), just northeast of Gettysburg. In 1791, additional trustees were appointed to plan to construct public buildings in Gettysburg instead of in Straban.

On January 22, 1800, the Pennsylvania Legislature created Adams County, and named Gettysburg as its county seat.{{cite book |last=Rupp |first=Israel Daniel |year=1846 |orig-year=written 1844 |chapter=History of Adams County: Chapter XXXIX |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LvZb8kntVtkC&q=Chapter+XXXIX |title=The History and Topography of 6 Pennsylvania Counties |location=Lancaster, Pennsylvania|Lancaster City |publisher=Gilbert Hills |access-date=July 30, 2011 |quote=At present 1844}}{{Rp|527}}

In 1858, the Gettysburg Railroad completed the construction of a railroad line from Gettysburg to Hanover, and the Gettysburg Railroad Station opened a year later. Passenger train service to the town ended in 1942. The station was restored in 2006. In 2011, Senator Robert Casey introduced S. 1897, including the railroad station within the boundary of Gettysburg National Military Park.{{cite web|title=Bill Text 112th Congress (2011–2012) S.1897.IS|url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s1897is/pdf/BILLS-112s1897is.pdf|work=www.gpo.gov|access-date=March 25, 2012}} By 1860, the borough had grown in size to consist of "450 buildings [which] housed carriage manufacturing, shoemakers, and tanneries".{{cite web |title=History of Gettysburg |url=https://www.gettysburgpa.gov/history/slideshows/town-history |access-date=March 27, 2022 |work=History of Gettysburg Pennsylvania}}

{{Main|Gettysburg campaign}}

{{Further|Battle of Gettysburg|Gettysburg Address}}

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Between July 1 and 3, 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg, one of the bloodiest battles during the American Civil War, was fought across the fields and heights surrounding the town.

The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, under the command of Robert E Lee, experienced success in the early stages of the battle but was ultimately defeated by the Army of the Potomac, commanded by George G. Meade. Lee executed an orderly withdrawal and escaped across the Potomac River without being drawn into another battle. Meade was heavily criticized by President Abraham Lincoln for his cautious pursuit and failure to destroy Lee's retreating army.

Casualties were high, with total losses on both sides – over 27,000 Confederate and 23,000 Union. The residents of Gettysburg were left to care for the wounded, and bury the dead following the Confederate retreat. Approximately 8,000 men and 3,000 horses lay under the summer sun. The Union soldiers' bodies were gradually reinterred in what is today known as Gettysburg National Cemetery, where, on November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln attended a ceremony to officially consecrate the grounds and delivered his Gettysburg Address.

A 20-year-old woman, Jennie Wade, was the only civilian killed during the battle. She was hit by a stray bullet that passed through her kitchen door while she was making bread on July 3.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gettysburgbattlefieldtours.com/gettysburg-tours/jennie-wade-house/|title=Jennie Wade House {{!}} Gettysburg Battlefield Tours|website=www.gettysburgbattlefieldtours.com|language=en-US|access-date=June 15, 2017}}

Physical damage can still be seen in some of the houses throughout the town, notably the Schmucker House{{Cite news|url=http://www.gettysburgdaily.com/gettysburgs-samuel-schmucker-house-artillery-shell/|title=Gettysburg's Samuel Schmucker House Artillery Shell {{!}} Gettysburg Daily|date=January 15, 2009|work=Gettysburg Daily|access-date=June 3, 2017|language=en-US}} located on Seminary Ridge.

{{Further|Gettysburg furniture companies}}

The furniture manufacturing industry employed people in Gettysburg for the first half of the 20th century. The "Gettysburg Manufacturing Company", formed in 1902, was the first company established in the borough for the purpose of manufacturing residential furniture. Other companies soon followed. The borough's industry reached peak production and success about the 1920s. This important industry declined from 1951, when the three main companies either moved, closed or were sold. The Gettysburg Furniture Company factory closed in 1960, becoming a warehouse and distribution point for other furniture factories outside of Pennsylvania.

Gettysburg manufacturing associated with tourism included a late 19th century foundry that manufactured gun carriages, bridgeworks and cannons for the Gettysburg 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{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KCcmAAAAIBAJ&pg=2331,6772032&dq=gettysburg+battlefield-museum+-foundation&hl=en |title=Out Of The Past: From the Files of the Star and Sentinel and The Gettysburg Times |page = Four |date=September 28, 1954 |newspaper = The Gettysburg Times |access-date=August 8, 2013}}), souvenir shops, buildings of the electric trolley (preceded by a horse trolley from the Gettysburg 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 (reenactors, etc.).

Gettysburg National Military Park extends partially into the Gettysburg borough limits,{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st42_pa/place/p4228960_gettysburg/DC20BLK_P4228960.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS – CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Gettysburg borough, PA|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=October 19, 2024|quote=Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg[...]Gettysburg Natl Mil Pk}} though it is mostly in nearby Cumberland Township.{{cite web|url=http://www.cumberlandtownship.com/departments/tonship-history|title=Cumberland Township History|publisher=Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania|access-date=October 19, 2024}} The Soldiers' National Cemetery, of the Military Park, is in the borough limits.{{cite web|url=http://www.cumberlandtownship.com/getmedia/f5769936-1362-4199-9fe7-a6ec41b0f98d/2CAJCP_App_A-Existing_Conditions.pdf|title=REGIONAL DEMOGRAPHICS|publisher=Cumberland Township|access-date=October 19, 2024|page=A198 (PDF p.68/96)}} Cumberland Township is also the site of the Eisenhower National Historic Site, which preserves the home and farm of Dwight D. Eisenhower.{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/eise/clr/intro1.pdf|title=Introduction Eisenhower National Historic Site|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=October 19, 2024}}

Gettysburg is located near the intersection of U.S. routes 15 and 30, approximately {{convert|25|mi}} west of York and {{convert|35|mi}} north of Frederick, Maryland. Rock Creek, a tributary of the Monocacy River and part of the Potomac River watershed, flows along its eastern edge. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of {{convert|4.3|sqkm|order=flip}}, all land.{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US4228960| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212201553/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US4228960| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Gettysburg borough, Pennsylvania| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=July 16, 2013}}

Gettysburg lies in the humid continental climate zone of northern and central Pennsylvania, just north of the humid subtropical zone of central Maryland, with hot, humid summers and cool winters. On average, January is the coldest month, with an average temperature of {{convert|29.8|°F}}. Winters range from cool to moderately cold, with relatively frequent snowfalls. July is the warmest month, with an average temperature of {{convert|74.4|°F}}, and June is the wettest month. The hottest temperature recorded in Gettysburg was {{convert|104|F}} on July 16, 1988, while the coldest temperature recorded was {{convert|-25|F}} on January 21, 1994.

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Pennsylvania's first on-farm methane digester was built near Gettysburg at the Mason-Dixon Farm in 1978, and generates 600KW.{{Cite web|url=https://extension.psu.edu/on-farm-anaerobic-digestion-biogas-production-in-pennsylvania-30-years|title=On-farm Anaerobic Digestion Biogas Production in Pennsylvania – 30 Years|date=November 22, 2016|website=Penn State Extension|language=en|access-date=February 24, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-12/documents/mason_dixon_agstar_site_profile_508_022614.pdf|title=Mason-Dixon Farms – Gettysburg, PA. Farm Scale Dairy Project|date=February 2014|website=AG Star, United States Environmental Protection Agency|access-date=February 23, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-042810-154622/unrestricted/DigestionIQP2.pdf|title=Methane Creation from Anaerobic Digestion: An Interactive Qualifying Project Report: Project Number: RWT-1001|last1=Cassie|first1=Benton|last2=DiLeo|first2=Matthew J|date=April 29, 2010|website=Worcester Polytechnic Institute|page=23|access-date=February 23, 2020|last3=Lee|first3=Jennifer A}}

{{See also|Gettysburg, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area}}

{{US Census population

|1830= 1473

|1840= 1908

|1850= 2180

|1860= 2390

|1870= 3074

|1880= 2814

|1890= 3221

|1900= 3495

|1910= 4030

|1920= 4439

|1930= 5584

|1940= 5916

|1950= 7046

|1960= 7960

|1970= 7275

|1980= 7194

|1990= 7025

|2000= 7490

|2010= 7620

|2020= 7106

|footnote=Sources:{{cite web|title=Census of Population and Housing|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=December 11, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=January 31, 2008|title=U.S. Census website}}{{cite web|title=Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012|url=https://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2012/SUB-EST2012.html|work=Population Estimates|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=December 11, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611010502/http://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2012/SUB-EST2012.html|archive-date=June 11, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/pl?get=P1_001N,NAME&for=place:*&in=state:42&key=5ccd0821c15d9f4520e2dcc0f8d92b2ec9336108|title=Census Population API|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=October 12, 2022}}

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As of the 2010 census, Gettysburg had a population of 7,620, and was 79.6% non-Hispanic white, 10.9% Hispanic or Latino, 5.4% African American, 1.9% Asian, 2.2% all other.[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20151023151502/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml Factfinder2census.gov]

The main industry of the borough is tourism associated with such historic sites as Gettysburg National Military Park (including the Gettysburg National Cemetery) and Eisenhower National Historic Site. Gettysburg has many activities and tours to offer to vacationers and tourists who are interested in the Gettysburg area and the history of the community and the battle. Tourists for the annual reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg use borough facilities, which include the Dobbin House Tavern and Hotel Gettysburg.

Every year from July 1–3 volunteers reenact the Battle of Gettysburg. Each day re-enactors display a different part of the battle with commentary regarding the hardships of the battles. The battles are narrated by the battlefield guides of the Gettysburg National Military Park."Gettysburg 2015." Annual Gettysburg Civil War Battle Reenactment RSS. Gettysburg Anniversary Committee, January 1, 2014. Web. March 30, 2015. http://www.gettysburgreenactment.com

Many roads radiate from Gettysburg, providing hub-like access to Washington, D.C. {{convert|75|mi}}, Baltimore {{convert|55|mi}}, Harrisburg {{convert|37|mi}}, Carlisle {{convert|27|mi}}, Frederick and Hagerstown, Maryland {{convert|32|mi}} and Hanover, Pennsylvania {{convert|14|mi}}. York is {{convert|30|mi}} east on the Lincoln Highway (U.S. Route 30), the first transcontinental U.S. highway, and Chambersburg is {{convert|25|mi}} west on it. Today the borough is a {{frac|2|1|2}} hour drive from Philadelphia and a {{frac|3|1|2}} hour drive from Pittsburgh via the Pennsylvania Turnpike and U.S. Route 15.

Gettysburg Regional Airport, a small general aviation airport, is located in Cumberland Township,{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st42_pa/cousub/cs4200117640_cumberland/DC20BLK_CS4200117640.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS – CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Cumberland township, PA|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|page=1 (PDF p. 2/3)|access-date=October 19, 2024|quote=Gettysburg Regional Arprt}} {{convert|2|mi}} west of Gettysburg.

The main east–west road through downtown Gettysburg is U.S. Route 30, which is known as York Street east of Lincoln Square and Chambersburg Street west of Lincoln Square.

York Adams Transportation Authority (YATA) operates public transportation in Adams County. Freedom Transit, implemented in 2009,{{cite web|url=http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_12715035?source=most_emailed |title=Freedom Transit, Gettysburg's new bus system, launched Monday |publisher=Evening Sun |date=December 31, 2011 |access-date=February 17, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225073613/http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_12715035?source=most_emailed |archive-date=February 25, 2012 }} The hub of the bus system, the new Gettysburg Transit Center, is under construction on Carlisle Street.{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbittransit.org/pressreleases/2011/pr_newcenter.html |title=Groundbreaking at New Gettysburg Transit Center |publisher=Rabbittransit.org |date=October 19, 2011 |access-date=February 17, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125050214/http://www.rabbittransit.org/pressreleases/2011/pr_newcenter.html |archive-date=January 25, 2012 }} Beginning in 2011, a Rabbit Transit commuter bus to Harrisburg runs two times each weekday in each direction.{{Cite web |title=Route 15N |url=https://www.rabbittransit.org/routes/route-15n/ |access-date=June 21, 2024 |website=rabbittransit |language=en-US}}

• The Gettysburg Times, a daily newspaper
• Raices De Todos, a bilingual monthly cultural magazine, serves the city's growing Latino/Hispanic population
• The Evening Sun, a daily newspaper
• Celebrate Gettysburg, a lifestyle magazine
• WGET-AM 1320 and WGTY-FM 107.7, owned by the Times and News Publishing Company
• WZBT-FM 91.1, a non-commercial radio freeform format station owned by Gettysburg College
• The Adams County News was a newspaper located in Gettysburg, which was published 1908–17. (Available in digitized form online.)
• Gettysburg is located in the Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, PA media market. Television stations that cover Gettysburg news include WHTM-TV and WHP-TV in Harrisburg, WGAL in Lancaster, and WPMT in York. Some Gettysburg residents also receive broadcasts from WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland and WDVM-TV in Hagerstown, Maryland.

Gettysburg is served by the Gettysburg Area School District.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42001_adams/DC20SD_C42001.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS – SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Adams County, PA|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=October 18, 2024}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42001_adams/DC20SD_C42001_SD2MS.txt Text list]

Schools in Gettysburg borough include Lincoln Elementary School and Gettysburg Area Middle School.{{cite web|url=https://le.gettysburg.k12.pa.us/|title=Home|publisher=Lincoln Elementary School|access-date=October 19, 2024|quote=98 Lefever Street Gettysburg PA 17325}}{{cite web|url=https://ms.gettysburg.k12.pa.us/|title=Home|publisher=Gettysburg Area Middle School|access-date=October 19, 2024|quote=37 Lefever Street Gettysburg PA 17325}} Gettysburg Area High School is in nearby Straban Township.{{cite web|url=https://www.strabantownship.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/straban_school_dist.pdf|title=STRABAN TOWNSHIP -- School Districts|publisher=Straban Township|access-date=October 19, 2024}} - See inset, which shows the high school in the township limits. James Gettys Elementary School, which has a Gettysburg postal address, is in Cumberland Township.{{cite web|url=http://www.cumberlandtownship.com/getmedia/f5769936-1362-4199-9fe7-a6ec41b0f98d/2CAJCP_App_A-Existing_Conditions.pdf|title=REGIONAL DEMOGRAPHICS|publisher=Cumberland Township|page=A196 (PDF p. 66/96)|access-date=October 19, 2024|quote=Municipality: Cumberland Township}} While all parts of the school district are assigned to the same middle and high schools, different areas are zoned to different elementary schools: parts of the borough are zoned to Lincoln Elementary, other parts are zoned to Gettys Elementary, and some parts have a choice between the schools.{{cite web|url=https://www.gettysburg.k12.pa.us/fornew-residents/elementary-boundaries|title=Elementary Boundaries|publisher=Gettysburg Area School District|access-date=October 19, 2024}}

Vida Charter School is in Cumberland Township.

It is also served by Gettysburg College, Harrisburg Area Community College Gettysburg Campus (in Cumberland Township), and a campus of the United Lutheran Seminary (Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, mostly in the borough limits, with portions in Cumberland Township{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st42_pa/cousub/cs4200117640_cumberland/DC20BLK_CS4200117640.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS – CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Cumberland township, PA|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|page=1 (PDF p. 2/3)|access-date=October 19, 2024}})

Gettysburg's sister cities are:{{cite web |title=Sister Cities|url=https://www.gettysburgpa.gov/sister-cities|website=gettysburgpa.gov|publisher=Borough of Gettysburg|access-date=March 10, 2022}}

• {{flagicon|USA}} Gettysburg, South Dakota, since 1997
• {{flagicon|NIC}} León, Nicaragua, since 1987
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Sainte-Mère-Église, France, since 1993
• {{flagicon|MEX}} Morelia, Mexico, since 2004
• {{flagicon|JPN}} Sekigahara, Japan, since 2016

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• Eisenhower National Historic Site: Preserves the home and farm of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, and its surrounding property of {{convert|690.5|acre|ha}}
• Federal Building, the main Adams County Library since 1992, was the War Department/National Park Service headquarters of Gettysburg National Military Park from 1912 to 1962

• Laura A. Brown (1874–1924), American activist and local politician
• Brian Patrick Clarke, American film and television actor born in 1952.
• Steve Courson, former NFL player, played football at and graduated from Gettysburg Area High School in 1973. His #71 is the only number to be retired by GAHS.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. president, and his wife Mamie Eisenhower, retired to a farm near Gettysburg after leaving the White House in 1961. He lived there until his death in 1969.
• Julia Jacobs Harpster (1846–1935), American Lutheran missionary in India, born in Gettysburg.
• The Rev. Henry Eyster Jacobs (1844–1932), theologian and Lutheran seminary president.
• Julia H. Johnston, Christian songwriter who composed Grace Greater Than All Our Sin.
• Elizabeth C. Keller (1837–1912), physician
• Fritz Pfeiffer (1889–1960), artist.
• Eddie Plank, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, was born in Gettysburg in 1875 and played baseball at Gettysburg College.
• The Rev. Samuel Simon Schmucker, a founder of Gettysburg College, and Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg.
• Jeff Shaara (1952-), Award-winning American novelist who has written fifteen New York Times bestselling novels.
• Thaddeus Stevens, Gettysburg Attorney and leader of the Radical Republicans as an opponent to slavery.
• John Studebaker, co-founder of what would become the Studebaker Corporation automobile company, was born in Gettysburg in 1833.
• Elizabeth Thorn (1832–1907), Evergreen Cemetery caretaker who buried approximately 100 fallen soldiers after the Battle of Gettysburg.
• William T. Ziegler (1840–1916), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives{{cite web |url=https://archives.house.state.pa.us/people/member-biography?ID=6107 |title=William T. Ziegler |website=Pennsylvania House of Representatives Archives |access-date=March 8, 2025}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160211192753/http://www.gettysburg-pa.gov/ Borough of Gettysburg official website]
• [https://www.destinationgettysburg.com/index.asp Gettysburg Convention & Visitors Bureau]
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