Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District

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Historical events regarding the district's registered/documented properties include the famous 1863 Battle of Gettysburg and Gettysburg Address, and the subsequent Gettysburg Battlefield memorial development, historic commemorations, and addition of visitor services during the subsequent administrative eras. Events preceding the battle include the prehistoric geomorphological events which formed the battlefield terrain that was an integral part of the battle, as well as the construction of structures subsequently associated with the battle. Notable antebellum structures that no longer exist include the 1761{{cite web |title=Historical Gettysburg, PA |url=http://www.gettysburgwebinfo.com/attractions/historical-gettysburg-pa/ |publisher=GettysburgWebInfo.com |accessdate=2011-04-20 |quote=In 1761, A Scots-Irish settler, Samuel Gettys, established a tavern in the area. |archive-date=2011-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010214345/http://www.gettysburgwebinfo.com/attractions/historical-gettysburg-pa/ |url-status=dead }} Samuel Gettys tavern, as well as the {{circa|1790}} [http://www.gdg.org/Research/Underground%20Railroad/mill.htm McAllister Mill] along Rock Creek used by the Underground Railroad. The 1776 Dobbin House Tavern was outside of the borough when it was surveyed in 1785,{{cite web|url=http://kevintrostle.com/THE_COLONIAL_PERIOD.html |title=The_Colonial_Period |publisher=Kevintrostle.com |date= |accessdate=2013-11-16}} and the 1786 Brafferton Inn (Hoke-Codori House) is the "oldest deeded house in downtown Gettysburg".{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=78slAAAAIBAJ&pg=6124,1052341&dq=mitchell%27s-restaurant+gettysburg&hl=en|title=Gettysburg Times - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|accessdate=14 March 2019}} The {{circa|1795}} pub (Quinn's 1859 "Railroad Store",{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=35EmAAAAIBAJ&pg=3210,4184202&dq=gettysburg+railroad&hl=en|title=The Compiler - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|accessdate=14 March 2019}} 1924 Mitchell's Restaurant) on the northeast of the center square subsequently burned and has been restored.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1ZaJ8543KsC&pg=PA160 |title=Lincoln Highway - Brian Butko - Google Boeken |isbn=9780811724975 |accessdate=2013-11-16|last1=Butko |first1=Brian |year=2002 }} By 1934, the first National Park Service Parkitecture of Gettysburg granite had been completed near The Pennsylvania State Memorial.

Official groupings of historical real estate tracts began with the 1864 Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association era, and continued with the initial United States Department of War acquisitions in 1893. The 1895 "Sickles Gettysburg Park Bill" (28 Stat. 651) designated the Gettysburg National Military Park (GNMP),{{Cite news |date=February 10, 1970 |title=Gettysburg National Military Park Established By Sickles, Bill Passed In February 1895 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HHQlAAAAIBAJ&pg=4065,1632115&dq=sickles+1894&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Times |accessdate=2011-01-26}} which included areas outside of the battlefield (e.g., structures used as field hospitals) and which was transferred in 1933 to the 1916 National Park Service. The GNMP was added to the national register in 1966, and the Gettysburg Borough Council adopted a Historic District ordinance in 1972.{{cite web |title=Borough of Gettysburg …historic crossroads |url=http://www.gettysburg-pa.gov/historic_preservation.htm |publisher=Borough Office |accessdate=2011-04-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612121931/http://www.gettysburg-pa.gov/historic_preservation.htm |archivedate=2011-06-12 }}

The historic district, which covers a larger area than either the national park or the battlefield, was designated via 2 multiple property submissions of contributing structures and properties, the first being the Battle of Gettysburg MPS on March 19, 1975. The list of classified structures was expanded from 618 to 1200 entries {{circa|1993}},{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9OAlAAAAIBAJ&pg=6904,2519313&dq=list-of-classified-structures+gettysburg&hl=en|title=Gettysburg Times - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|accessdate=14 March 2019}} and the second MPS was dated January 23, 2004.{{cite news |title=List of Classified Structures |publisher=NPS.gov}} by "structure number":
RR02: {{cite web |title=Electric Trolley Bed |url=http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=&PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=1079 |accessdate=2011-03-02 |quote=[rail] trail along Plum Run at Devils Den, runs N through Rose Farm & stops near The Loop.'' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721061606/http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=&PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=1079 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |url-status=dead }}

MN807: {{cite web |title=Tipton Boundary Marker |url=http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=&PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=1007 |accessdate=2011-03-02 |quote=approximately, 7"x7"x1'. Inscribed "T" on top of marker. … rough granite with a "T" inscribed on the top. … at a corner of Tipton land purchased in March 1892 as part of the Tipton Park and photographic studio. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721061043/http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=&PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=1007 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |url-status=dead }}

NPS02: {{cite web |title=Old Slaughter Pen Path and Steps |url=http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=&PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=1029 |accessdate=2011-03-04 |quote=used by trolley passengers … Path and steps are now used as a Park trail. … Path runs N/S from Plum Run to Sickles Avenue. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721061636/http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=&PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=1029 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |url-status=dead }}

The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) and its partners have acquired and preserved {{convert|1,022|acres|km2}} within the battlefield historic district in more than 30 separate acquisitions since 1997. Some of these acres are now part of the Gettysburg National Military Park, but many continue to be owned by the Trust.[https://www.battlefields.org/preserve/saved-land] American Battlefield Trust "Saved Land" webpage. Accessed May 24, 2018.

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• {{C|Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania}}
• {{C|Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania}}

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• [http://loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3648/ Gettysburg National Military Park Tour Roads], Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-485
• [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa2627 Biggs Farm, House, Gettysburg vicinity, Adams, PA] at the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), with more structures at hdl.loc.gov: [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1788], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0011], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0012], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1693], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0005], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1789], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1817], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0006], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1818], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1819], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1820], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1745], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1740], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa2625], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa3956], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1413], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0014], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0015], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1692], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1739], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0017], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0016], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0018], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1676], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1747], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1746], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1800], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1728], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0020], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0019], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0021], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1639], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa2267], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa2270], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa2272], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa2271], [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1788]

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|Northwest=Shippensburg Historic District|North=Carlisle Historic District|Northeast=Hunterstown Historic District

|West=Fairfield Historic District |Centre=Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District |East=East Berlin Historic District

|Southwest=Emmitsburg Historic District |South =Taneytown Historic District |Southeast=Hanover Historic District

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Category:Gettysburg National Military Park

Category:Historic districts in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania

Category:Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania

Category:American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places

Category:Conflict sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania

Category:National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Category:Pennsylvania in the American Civil War