Tipton Station

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Tipton Station was a Gettysburg Battlefield trolley stop of the Gettysburg Electric Railway for passenger access to Crawford's Glen to the north,{{Cite web |last=Hamilton |first=Calvin |date=January 5, 1892 |title=Executive Committee Minutes of the Gettysburg Battlefield Association |url=http://www.gdg.org/Research/Monuments/gbmaminutes.html |publisher=Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association |accessdate=2011-03-04 |quote=May 13, 1884 … On motion, permission was granted Henry Reister to occupy the shanty at the base of Little Round Top, for the sale of refreshments, provided, that no intoxicating liquors should be sold.}} Devil's Den (west), and Tipton Park (east). The station was established during the 1894 construction of the end of the trolley line and was near the Devil's Den trolley siding, south of the trolley's Warren Avenue crossing,{{Citation needed|reason=Was Warren Av built after Tipton Park ended? Cope's 1904 map shows the Av paved.|date=June 2011}} and northeast of the Plum Run trolley bridge. An uphill trail led southwest to Big Round Top with its 1895 Observation Tower, and the "Slaughter Pen Path and Steps" were built to Devil's Den.

Tipton Park

Tipton Park was an 1894 trolley park with a tintype photographic studio and food stand on private Slaughter Pen land purchased in March 1892 by photographer William H. Tipton, an investor{{cite news|title=The Trolley was the Cause - Tipton Said to be Its Advocate |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB061EFA3F5A1A738DDDAC0894DF405B8385F0D3 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 5, 1893 |accessdate=2011-06-28 |quote=Complaints had come to General Sickles that Tipton's money and influence are for the trolley road, …}} in the 1891 Gettysburg Electric Railway Company.{{Cite news |date=August 4, 1891 |title=Electric Railway |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lv8yAAAAIBAJ&pg=4324,7591531&dq=electric-railway+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-03-06}} As with Wheat-field Park to the west-northwest and Little Round Top Park (northeast), the park was a commemorative era visitor attraction for battlefield excursions such as the "Christian Endeavor Day" on July 25, 1899.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F-MyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1QAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2845,6993765&dq=tipton-park+gettysburg&hl=en] The park property was one of the first trolley right-of-ways acquired [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gKElAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2350,5331272&dq=tipton-park+gettysburg&hl=en] by the War Department after the 1896 US Supreme Court decision in the United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry. Co. case. The 2 tracts of {{Convert|14.2|acre|km2|abbr=on}} were deeded on December 31, 1901,{{Cite book |year=1916 |title=United States military reservations, National cemeteries, and military parks |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u34AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA315 |section=Gettysburg National Park |accessdate=2011-04-19 |quote=Tipton, Wm. H. and wife (2 tracts), dated December 31, 1901, conveying 14.2 acres of land. Recorded in book 55, page 524}}{{Rp|321}} after a May 7 federal hearing,{{Cite Gettysburg Commission Reports}}{{Rp|'01}} and the "eating house" was moved to the Little/Big Round Top topographic saddle (operated by "Blind Davy" Weikert).{{Cite news |date=August 9, 1927 |title=Local Miscellany; Out of the Past: Twenty-Five Years Ago |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kaklAAAAIBAJ&pg=1963,6181203&dq=hudson-park+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Times |accessdate=2013-10-23}} The trolley tracks were removed in 1917 after federal funding was authorized.

In 1934 a Gettysburg Parkitecture comfort station was built at the site{{Cite news |date=July 16, 1934 |title=Plan $50,000 Battlefield Project Here |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RgkmAAAAIBAJ&pg=6430,469583&dq=comfort-stations+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Times |accessdate=2011-02-02 |quote=The entrance stations … will be combination guides' stations, comfort stations and information bureaus. … The comfort stations will be erected at Devil's Den and Spangler's Spring. }} ([https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RgkmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Jf0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6430,469583&dq=comfort-stations+gettysburg&hl=en 1936], [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RgkmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Jf0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6430,469583&dq=comfort-stations+gettysburg&hl=en 1936], [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RgkmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Jf0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6430,469583&dq=comfort-stations+gettysburg&hl=en 1937)] ({{Coord|40.116111|-77.186667}}){{Cite map |publisher=Google Maps |date=December 2007 |title=Devil's Den, Cumberland, PA |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Devil's+Den&hl=en&ll=39.791098,-77.24108&spn=0.001228,0.003259&sll=40.116111,-77.186667&sspn=0.156481,0.417137&t=h&z=19 |accessdate=2011-06-28}} and a Plum Run pedestrian bridge was built to it from Devil's Den. In 2004, artifacts associated with Tipton Park were designated as historic district contributing structures (e.g., "Tipton Boundary Marker",{{cite document |title=List of Classified Structures |publisher=NPS.gov}}:
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. … Pair of cut stone block abutments over Rose Run, 5' high, 25' long & approx 10' apart.'' |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721061606/http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=&PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=1079 |archivedate=2011-07-21 }}

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. }}

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. }}

and the comfort station and its electrical line were removed {{circa|2008}}.

References

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Category:Transportation buildings and structures in Adams County, Pennsylvania

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