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This "fire gong" came from the Fairfield farm of
Harry E. Brown
1874-1951
Volunteer Fireman
Church leader
Civic elder
School Board president
First "Pennsylvania Master Farmer" of Adams County (1935)
Given in memory by his grandsons
Thomas…
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Major Samuel S. Starr and other wounded officers of the 6th U.S. Cavalry were cared for here July 3, 1863
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On June 22, 1863, a skirmish erupted at Monterey Pass when Company D of the 4th Virginia Cavalry attacked portions of Union cavalry under the command of Captain Robert Bell, Captain Samuel Randall, and several members of the Gettysburg Home Guard.…
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On the afternoon of July 4, Union General Judson Kilpatrick left Emmitsburg with three brigades of cavalry, supported by three batteries of rifled artillery. Kilpatrick was ordered to locate and attack a Confederate wagon train that was moving ove…
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"This house was within the Rebel lines. Occupying an elevated position from which the Federal lines could be seen with a field glass, and being at a safe distance from our guns, it was selected by General Lee and his staff as his headquarters. Her…
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"There was no use in fighting any longer. The enemy had deployed and we were trapped. The town was before us, the enemy on either side, and behind us." —Col. John Musser, 143rd Pennsylvania Infantry
On the afternoon of July 1, 1863, Confe…
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"This is without a doubt the most important preservation effort we've yet undertaken."
—Jim Lighthizer, President, Civil War Trust
In the decades after the battle, the Thompson House became a popular attraction among visitors interested …
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"Three more acres or less on which are erected a one and a half story stone dwelling house and frame stable ... directed and sold and struck off the same unto Thaddeus Stevens, trustee of Mary Thompson, for the sum of sixteen dollars—Deed da…
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"On every side the passion, rage and frenzy of fearless men or reckless boys devoted to slaughter or doomed to death! The same sun that a day before had been shining to cure the wheat-sheaves of the harvest of peace, now glared to pierce the gray …
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This flag flying in memory of
those that served their
country and community
All Those Who Have Served
They shall beat their swords
into plowshares