Gettysburg Rostrum

{{Short description|Gettysburg Battlefield venue for historical commemorations}}

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File:Gettysburg rostrum.jpg

The Gettysburg Rostrum is a brick speaker's stand located at Gettysburg National Cemetery. It was Identified in 1908 as the location of the Gettysburg Address.{{Cite news |date=May 31, 1908 |title=Knox at Gettysburg |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/05/31/104804465.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2011-11-24 |quote=Senator Knox spoke from the famous rostrum built on the spot where President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address in 1863.}} However, it is now believed the address was given elsewhere.{{Cite web |title=Where Did Lincoln Stand During the Gettysburg Address? |url=https://www.pbsnc.org/blogs/science/where-did-lincoln-stand-during-the-gettysburg-address/ |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=PBS North Carolina |language=en}} The pavilion was constructed in 1879{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g1EmAAAAIBAJ&pg=1509,5857048&dq=samuel-bushman+gettysburg&hl=en|title=Gettysburg Compiler - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}} by P. J. and J. J. Tawney,{{cite web|url=http://www.gdg.org/Research/BattlefieldHistories/encmaint.html|title=Maintenance by the War Department|website=www.gdg.org}} extended in 1904,{{Cite web |url=http://www.gdg.org/Research/Authored%20Items/BCRReports/1904.html |title=1904 Reports |access-date=2011-11-25 |archive-date=2011-08-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806020438/http://www.gdg.org/Research/Authored%20Items/BCRReports/1904.html |url-status=dead }} and was restored in 2013 for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.{{Cite web |title=Two Rostrums: Small Structures with Big History and Purpose |url=https://www.gwwoinc.com/news-insights/two-rostrums-small-structures-with-big-history-and-purpose |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=www.gwwoinc.com |language=en}} The stand has been used by multiple presidents including Theodore Roosevelt (1904), William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge (1928), Herbert Hoover (1930), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934), and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1955).{{Cite web |title=Gettysburg National Cemetery Entrance (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/places/gettysburg-national-cemetery-entrance.htm |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}

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|image1={{circa|1903}} [http://www.encore-editions.com/rostrum-in-soldiers-national-cemetery-gettysburg photograph]{{Cite web |title=Rostrum in Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg |url=http://www.encore-editions.com/rostrum-in-soldiers-national-cemetery-gettysburg |type=c. 1903 photograph |publisher=EncoreEditions.com |access-date=2011-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002095901/http://www.encore-editions.com/rostrum-in-soldiers-national-cemetery-gettysburg |archive-date=2011-10-02 |url-status=dead }}

|image2=[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CFdcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=G1YNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4089,5639531&dq=rostrum+gettysburg+president&hl=en 1911 photograph]

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