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HAER PA,1-GET.V,21- (sheet 2 of 14) - Gettysburg National Military Park Tour Roads, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA
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HAER PA,1-GET.V,21- (sheet 2 of 14) - Gettysburg National Military Park Tour Roads, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA
Description
Cope, Emmor B; Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association; Warren, G K; Bureau of Public Roads; US Department of War; Lee, Robert E; Hooker, Joseph "Fighting Joe"; Howard, Oliver O; Longstreet, James; Hill, Ambrose Powell; Ewell, Richard S; Meade, George Gordon; Reynolds, John; Early, Jubal; Sickles, Daniel; Grant, Ulysses S; Saunders, William; Bachelder, John B; Rogers, Randolph; Gross, George J; Cavada, A F; Wills, David; McConaughy, David; Wilson, Nicholas G; Gettysburg Electric Railway Company; Nicholson, John P; Forney, William H; Robbins, William McKendree; Lomax, Lindsay L; Richardson, Charles A; Geo D Wetherill and Company; Fitchey, J U; Telford, Thomas; M and T E Farrell; O S Kelly Company; American Foundry and Machine Company; Aumen, James; Davis, E E; Farrell, Edward J; Good Roads Company, Incorporated; Valentine, Ellsworth C; M J Grove Lime Company; Macadam, John Loudon; Marston, Christopher, project manager; Haas, David W, photographer; Holmes, Amanda J, historian; Lupyak, Edward J, delineator; Steel, Nicole, delineator; Yung, Nicki, delineator; Weber, Christiane, delineator; Hall, Jennifer, transmitter
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Adams County; Gettysburg
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,1-GET.V,21- (sheet 2 of 14)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Constructed between 1882 and 1917, the avenues of the Gettysburg National Military Park serve as the main interpretative system for the three days of battle which took place between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia on 1, 2, and 3 July 1863, as a part of the American Civil War. The park was authorized as a National Military Park by the federal government in 1895 to represent the significant engagement in the East, one of five major battlefields to commemorate the Civil War. The battlefield has been under the control of three successive organizations, the Gettysburg Memorial Association (1864-1895), the War Department (1895-1933), and the National Park Service (1933-present), all of which have altered, added to and maintained the avenue system. For the most part, the avenues were constructed along the battle lines of the Union and Confederate Armies to show those armies' defensive positions prior to each day's fighting.

The War Department laid out and improved the greatest number of avenues, most using the Telford method of road construction. In the early twentieth century the Telford avenues of Gettysburg were recognized as some of the finest roads in the country. The avenues were significant because they combined an awareness of advanced road-building technology with a sensitivity to the landscape on which they were constructed. This Telford construction survives as the solid base for many of the avenues in the park today, so while they are hidden, they continue to serve as material evidence of historic road building and of the veterans' vision of how they wanted their war efforts and comrades to be remembered. The early interpretive road system for the park combined the existing system of public roads, farm lanes and other historic traces with avenues laid out across the valley wherever the lines of battle formed. Tracing the development of this road system becomes a journey into the park's evolving interpretation of the Battle of Gettysburg and how the entire landscape is integral to that interpretation.

  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N769
  • Survey number: HAER PA-485
  • Building/structure dates: 1883-1917 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1933-1940 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1956-1959 Subsequent Work
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Object location39° 49′ 50.99″ N, 77° 13′ 53″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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