"...what in your life you will never see again."

This building was the Professor Michael Jacobs residence which remained in the family from 1934 until 1901. One of the town's leading citizens, Professor Jacobs was a member of the Gettysburg College faculty from its foundation in 1832 until his ...

The Gorgas-Manly Historic District

includes

The Gorgas House (1829)

First structure built on the original campus

The Round House (1860)

Used by cadets on guard duty, and another of the four buildings to survive the fires set by Federal troops in 1865.

Woods Hall (1868)

First building constructed after the ...

"...sights and sounds...too horrible to describe..."

Four years after Gettysburg became the county seat in 1800, the first Adams County Courthouse was placed in Lincoln Square (one block to your right). In 1859 this larger building was erected to serve the growing populace.

The arrival of the ...

Louvale Church Row

Originally Antioch, the town developing at the terminus of the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery (Little SAM) Railroad, was renamed Louvale in 1886.

Antioch Primitive Baptist Church, founded 1832 in Pleasant Valley, moved to Moccasin Gap 1842 and here 1851. Present ...

The Memorial Church of the Prince of Peace

Episcopal

The first Episcopal services in Gettysburg were held at the courthouse in 1867. The first church building of the parish was built on Stevens St. in 1876.

Conceived as a memorial to the dead of both sides in the Civil War, ...

Electricity for the City of Attalla

In the fall of 1902, Captain William Patrick Lay, of Gadsden, began construction of a small hydro electric generating plant at the site of Wesson Mill on Big Wills Creek, just southwest of Attalla. The plant was constructed, in Lay’s ...

Cast Iron Panels

The cast iron panels on this fence are from the Driard Hotel, built in 1892 and designed by architect John Teaque. It was Victoria’s most prestigious hotel prior to the construction of the Empress Hotel. A reconstructed portion of the ...

Ida Ella Ruth Jones

(1874 – 1959)

African American self-taught artist who depicted life in rural Chester County in the first half of the 20th century. The daughter of a former slave, Jones completed more than 300 works in her 70’s and 80’s. She ...

Presidents Attended Service Here

(top):

Abraham Lincoln attended services at this church on November 19, 1863, the day he dedicated the National Cemetery and delivered his Gettysburg Address. The pew he occupied has been retained in the sanctuary.

(lower):

Dwight D. Eisenhower was a member of this ...

Malvern Hill

Day Seven of the Seven Days

Before you stood the Union rearguard, on Malvern Hill. Here, McClellan's line atop the plateau was only 875 yards wide. Confederate batteries were to soften the position prior to the infantry assault, but the Federal ...