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'''Round Top, Pennsylvania''', is a [[populated place]] near [[Little Round Top]] that is notable for 2 [[Battle of Gettysburg]] field hospitals, the 1884 [[Round Top Station]], and several [[Gettysburg Battlefield#Commemorative era|battlefield commemorative era]] attractions for tourists. The unincorporated community lies on an elevated area of the north-south [[Pennsylvania Route 134|Taneytown Road]] with 3 intersections at Blacksmith Shop Road to the northeast, [[Wheatfield Road]] (west from "Roundtop"), and Sachs Road (east from "Sedgwick").<ref name=1958map>{{cite map |year=March 1958 |title=Map of Adams County |publisher=PA Department of Highways}}</ref>
'''Round Top, Pennsylvania''', is a [[populated place]] near [[Little Round Top]] that is notable for 2 [[Round Top hospitals|Battle of Gettysburg hospitals]], the 1884 [[Round Top Station]], and several [[Gettysburg Battlefield#Commemorative era|battlefield commemorative era]] attractions such as [[Round Top Park]] and the [[Round Top Museum]]. The unincorporated community lies on an elevated area of the north-south [[Pennsylvania Route 134|Taneytown Road]] with 3 intersections at Blacksmith Shop Road to the northeast, [[Wheatfield Road]] (west from "Roundtop"), and Sachs Road (east from "Sedgwick").<ref name=1958map>{{cite map |year=March 1958 |title=Map of Adams County |publisher=PA Department of Highways}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
After an 1808 proposal,<ref>{{Citation |title=petition for road (approved) |publisher=[[Adams County, Pennsylvania|Adams County]] court |month=January 1808 term}} (cited by [http://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/stories/reflections/barrlow.htm Geiselman p. 87)]</ref> the [[Pennsylvania Route 134|Taneytown Road]] was constructed southward from Gettysburg past the east of the [[Little Round Top#Geography|Round Tops]] and by 1858, 2 crossroads had been built to the area with 3 homes (north-to-south: "Geo Bishop", "E. Brickert", & "J. Group") that would become Round Top:<ref name=1858map>{{Cite map |publisher=M.S. & E. Converse |year=1858 |title=G. M. Hopkins survey |url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3823a+la000697)) |url=http://www.simmonsgames.com/tools/mapviewer/Frames.html#http%3A%2F%2Fwww.simmonsgames.com%2Fresearch%2Fauthors%2FPAGovtMisc%2FAdamsCounty%2FGettysburg-XX-1858Frame.html |format=SimmonsGames.com mapviewer |accessdate=2011-01-26}}</ref> Wheatfield Rd on the west across the north foot of Little Round Top to the [[U.S. Route 15 Business (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)|Emmitsburg Road]] and Sachs Rd eastward across [[Rock Creek (Monocacy River)|Rock Creek]].<ref name=1858map/> In 1884, the [[Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad]] built a steamtrain railroad to the [[Round Top Station]], which operated until {{circa|1942}} when the branch's abandonment application was filed.[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=7_FrD3gH8REC&dat=19420202&printsec=frontpage] In 1894 on a different railway from the west, the [[Gettysburg Electric Railway]] began trolley operations to the station.<ref group=G name=GT1952/>
After an 1808 proposal,<ref>{{Citation |title=petition for road (approved) |publisher=[[Adams County, Pennsylvania|Adams County]] court |month=January 1808 term}} (cited by [http://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/stories/reflections/barrlow.htm Geiselman p. 87)]</ref> the [[Pennsylvania Route 134|Taneytown Road]] was constructed southward from Gettysburg past the east of the [[Little Round Top#Geography|Round Tops]] and by 1858, 2 crossroads had been built to the area with 3 homes (north-to-south: "Geo Bishop", "E. Brickert", & "J. Group") that would become Round Top:<ref name=1858map>{{Cite map |publisher=M.S. & E. Converse |year=1858 |title=G. M. Hopkins survey |url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3823a+la000697)) |url=http://www.simmonsgames.com/tools/mapviewer/Frames.html#http%3A%2F%2Fwww.simmonsgames.com%2Fresearch%2Fauthors%2FPAGovtMisc%2FAdamsCounty%2FGettysburg-XX-1858Frame.html |format=SimmonsGames.com mapviewer |accessdate=2011-01-26}}</ref> Wheatfield Rd on the west across the north foot of Little Round Top to the [[U.S. Route 15 Business (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)|Emmitsburg Road]] and Sachs Rd eastward across [[Rock Creek (Monocacy River)|Rock Creek]].<ref name=1858map/> In 1884, the [[Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad]] built a steamtrain railroad to the [[Round Top Station]], which operated until {{circa|1942}} when the branch's abandonment application was filed.[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=7_FrD3gH8REC&dat=19420202&printsec=frontpage] In 1894 on a different railway from the west, the [[Gettysburg Electric Railway]] began trolley operations to the station.<ref group=G name=GT1952>{{Cite news |date=April 30, 1952 |title=Story of Old Trolley Line Told to Club |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s9wlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3080,46849&dq=rosensteel+pavilion+dancing+gettysburg&hl=en |accessdate=2011-02-26}}</ref>


;Sedgwick Post Office: After an 1884 refreshment stand opened in a "shanty at the base{{Which|north, east, west?|date=July 2011}} of Little Round Top",<ref name=Hamilton>{{Cite web |last=Krauth |first=Jno M, et al (GBMA secretaries) |date=January 5, 1892 |title=Executive Committee Minutes of the Gettysburg Battlefield Association |url=http://www.gdg.org/Research/Monuments/gbmaminutes.html |format=transcription by Kathleen R. Georg |work= |publisher=Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association |accessdate=2011-07-05 |quote=''Resolved, That the chairman of the Board be requested to confer with Gen. S. W. Crawford, as to the conveyance of his property, in front of Little Round Top, commonly known as '''Crawford's Glen''', to the Battlefield Memorial Association. … 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.''}}</ref> the 1884 house<ref group=G name=GT1885>
;Sedgwick Post Office: After an 1884 refreshment stand opened in a "shanty at the base{{Which|north, east, west?|date=July 2011}} of Little Round Top",<ref name=Hamilton>{{Cite web |last=Krauth |first=Jno M, et al (GBMA secretaries) |date=January 5, 1892 |title=Executive Committee Minutes of the Gettysburg Battlefield Association |url=http://www.gdg.org/Research/Monuments/gbmaminutes.html |format=transcription by Kathleen R. Georg |work= |publisher=Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association |accessdate=2011-07-05 |quote=''Resolved, That the chairman of the Board be requested to confer with Gen. S. W. Crawford, as to the conveyance of his property, in front of Little Round Top, commonly known as '''Crawford's Glen''', to the Battlefield Memorial Association. … 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.''}}</ref> the 1884 house<ref group=G name=GT1885>
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;Round Top School: The [[one-room school|one-room]] 1889<ref name=hscl/> '''Round Top School''' was where the 1892 township citizens group formed to oppose the [[Gettysburg Electric Railway]] ([[cf.]] [[United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry. Co.]]).[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z6QlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5309,566688&dq=round-top-school+gettysburg&hl=en] Teachers included [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QYslAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wPIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1071,3312948&dq=round-top-school+gettysburg&hl=en William A. Taughinbaugh,<!--died 1941-->] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R4slAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wPIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1007,3099653&dq=round-top-school+gettysburg&hl=en Elizabeth Lott,<!--died 1942-->] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=U1omAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yP8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3758,2141423&dq=cromer+barlow&hl=en John W. Black (in 1903),] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rLxcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tlgNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1006,8081542&dq=round-top-school+gettysburg&hl=en Mary Rudisill (1909),] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aU4mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=H_8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3709,3704339&dq=ketterman+round-top&hl=en Myrtle L. Shealy (1922),] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=75wlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gfYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5564,5869019&dq=martha-epley+gettysburg&hl=en Martha Epley (1928)], Mary L. Leas (1936) & [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hc89AAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZTcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6767,2717285&dq=round-top-school+gettysburg&hl=en Robert Ellis Fisher] (1937,<ref group=G name=GT1937>{{Cite news |date=May 20, 1937 |title=Re-Name Cumberland Township Teachers |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0_AlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5313,6797399&dq=round-top-school+-straban&hl=en |accessdate=2011-04-26}}</ref> 1938), [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9sY9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=HzcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2859,5096591&dq=winfield-horner+round-top&hl=en Mrs Marion Milllhimes (1942)], [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6o49AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pjUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=7288,7203041&dq=barlow+1947+gettysburg&hl=en Frances Gilbert (1947)], and [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Eo8lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yfIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5974,6881857&dq=round-top-school+-straban&hl=en Mrs. Mary B. Trout (1948).] The school [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Eo8lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yfIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1185,6872950&dq=round-top-school&hl=en closed in 1948], was sold in 1952,<ref group=G>{{cite web |date=February 8, 1952 |title=Public Sale of Valuable Real Estate |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=f9wlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2788,4333644&dq=round-top-school+-straban&hl=en <!--Feb 20: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iNwlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4856,3781698&dq=round-top-school&hl=en Mar 1: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jtwlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4899,3385317&dq=round-top-school+-straban&hl=en--> |accessdate=2011-07-04 |quote=''bounded on the North by Donald Swisher, on the South by the public road, on the East by Lawrence Tressler and on the West by U. S. Government and Emory Rosensteel, containing 78 perches''}}</ref> had renovations planned in 1972,[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=A7NbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IlENAAAAIBAJ&pg=4891,3129787&dq=round-top-museum&hl=en] and was deemed historically "not significant" in 2004.<ref name=hscl>{{cite web |title=Round Top Schoolhouse |url=http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=75 |work=[http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/summary.asp?PARK=GETT&STATE=&STRUCTURE=Slyder%20Barn&SORT=&PAGE=3 List of Classified Structures] |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |accessdate=tbd}}</ref>
;Round Top School: The [[one-room school|one-room]] 1889<ref name=hscl/> '''Round Top School''' was where the 1892 township citizens group formed to oppose the [[Gettysburg Electric Railway]] ([[cf.]] [[United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry. Co.]]).[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z6QlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5309,566688&dq=round-top-school+gettysburg&hl=en] Teachers included [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QYslAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wPIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1071,3312948&dq=round-top-school+gettysburg&hl=en William A. Taughinbaugh,<!--died 1941-->] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R4slAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wPIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1007,3099653&dq=round-top-school+gettysburg&hl=en Elizabeth Lott,<!--died 1942-->] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=U1omAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yP8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3758,2141423&dq=cromer+barlow&hl=en John W. Black (in 1903),] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rLxcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tlgNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1006,8081542&dq=round-top-school+gettysburg&hl=en Mary Rudisill (1909),] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aU4mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=H_8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3709,3704339&dq=ketterman+round-top&hl=en Myrtle L. Shealy (1922),] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=75wlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gfYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5564,5869019&dq=martha-epley+gettysburg&hl=en Martha Epley (1928)], Mary L. Leas (1936) & [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hc89AAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZTcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6767,2717285&dq=round-top-school+gettysburg&hl=en Robert Ellis Fisher] (1937,<ref group=G name=GT1937>{{Cite news |date=May 20, 1937 |title=Re-Name Cumberland Township Teachers |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0_AlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5313,6797399&dq=round-top-school+-straban&hl=en |accessdate=2011-04-26}}</ref> 1938), [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9sY9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=HzcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2859,5096591&dq=winfield-horner+round-top&hl=en Mrs Marion Milllhimes (1942)], [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6o49AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pjUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=7288,7203041&dq=barlow+1947+gettysburg&hl=en Frances Gilbert (1947)], and [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Eo8lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yfIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5974,6881857&dq=round-top-school+-straban&hl=en Mrs. Mary B. Trout (1948).] The school [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Eo8lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yfIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1185,6872950&dq=round-top-school&hl=en closed in 1948], was sold in 1952,<ref group=G>{{cite web |date=February 8, 1952 |title=Public Sale of Valuable Real Estate |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=f9wlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2788,4333644&dq=round-top-school+-straban&hl=en <!--Feb 20: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iNwlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4856,3781698&dq=round-top-school&hl=en Mar 1: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jtwlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4899,3385317&dq=round-top-school+-straban&hl=en--> |accessdate=2011-07-04 |quote=''bounded on the North by Donald Swisher, on the South by the public road, on the East by Lawrence Tressler and on the West by U. S. Government and Emory Rosensteel, containing 78 perches''}}</ref> had renovations planned in 1972,[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=A7NbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IlENAAAAIBAJ&pg=4891,3129787&dq=round-top-museum&hl=en] and was deemed historically "not significant" in 2004.<ref name=hscl>{{cite web |title=Round Top Schoolhouse |url=http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=75 |work=[http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/summary.asp?PARK=GETT&STATE=&STRUCTURE=Slyder%20Barn&SORT=&PAGE=3 List of Classified Structures] |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |accessdate=tbd}}</ref>
{{For|the {{External link|{{GNIS 3|1185555}}|Round Top School}} 4 miles E<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 5, 1914 |title=Machine Swerves into Side Gutter |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GpclAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TPQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3495,3207588&dq=round-top-school&hl=en |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate-2011-02=24}} ([http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=89slAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ofwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4303,49489&dq=round-top-school&hl=en The Round Top/Granite Station school closed 1951.)][http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5XklAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QvQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6918,996464&dq=round-top-school&hl=en]</ref> of [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania|Gettysburg]] at 2276 York Rd<!--[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=o64lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RvUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6513,1280612&dq=round-top-school+gettysburg&hl=en]--> near [[Granite station, Pennsylvania|Granite station]]|Straban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania{{!}}Straban Township}}
{{For|the {{External link|{{GNIS 3|1185555}}|Round Top School}} 4 miles E<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 5, 1914 |title=Machine Swerves into Side Gutter |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GpclAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TPQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3495,3207588&dq=round-top-school&hl=en |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate-2011-02=24}} ([http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=89slAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ofwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4303,49489&dq=round-top-school&hl=en The Round Top/Granite Station school closed 1951.)][http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5XklAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QvQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6918,996464&dq=round-top-school&hl=en]</ref> of [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania|Gettysburg]] at 2276 York Rd<!--[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=o64lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RvUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6513,1280612&dq=round-top-school+gettysburg&hl=en]--> near [[Granite station, Pennsylvania|Granite station]]|Straban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania{{!}}Straban Township}}

===Civil War field hospitals===
;Plank hospital: A Union 1st Division[http://www.chapman-grant.com/friends/getperson.php?personID=I12&tree=Gulbrandson] field hospital was temporarily located at the Round Top farm of Levi and Mary Plank[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qA8mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Df0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1483,5701504&dq=swartz+round-top+gettysburg&hl=en] which "E. Brickert" had owned in 1858.<ref name=1858map/> The farmhouse is located near the local crest of the Taneytown Rd, but in 1863 "''on the morning of July 3 ''[the hospital]'' was moved to the [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F8BcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rVgNAAAAIBAJ&pg=931,4231772&dq=hospital-road+gettysburg&hl=en M. Fissel Farm] east of [[Rock Creek (Monocacy River)|Rock Creek]]''".<ref group=G>{{Cite news |date=July 14, 1986 |title=Care of wounded after Battle of Gettysburg |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l8IlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1343,5540040&dq=round-top+railroad+gettysburg+1939&hl=en |page=7 |accessdate=2011-02-23 }}</ref> The stone house on the road's west side (#921 Taneytown Rd), and the farm's barn was on the opposite side of the road (#920) until it burned in 1967.[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I1cmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZP8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=988,2520204&dq=emory-fox+gettysburg&hl=en] In 1916, the home was the site of an accidental shooting of the local blacksmith's daughter, aged 12,[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sdQlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=V_QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6046,5131845&dq=epley+round-top&hl=en] who survived with the cranial bullet[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M5MlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EPMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6189,145762&dq=epley+round-top&hl=en] and became the [[Round Top, Pennsylvania#Visitor attractions|Round Top school]]marm.[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=75wlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gfYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5564,5869019&dq=martha-epley+gettysburg&hl=en]
{{For|the different field hospitals at the Bushman house (12th & 2nd Corps) to the east near [[Rock Creek (Monocacy River)|Rock Creek]] (different from the Trostle hospital along the creek)<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 27, 1899 |title=Public Sale of Real Estate |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FuMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1QAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=7249,6957971&dq=round-top+fissel&hl=en |format=Google News Archives |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-04-26}}</ref> and at the J. Weikert house (Fifth Corps) to the south on the Taneytown Rd|Strong Vincent|Stephen H. Weed}}

;Group hospital: The John & [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44552099 Harriet Group] house along the road now named Sachs Rd was the field hospital where "''General Taylor{{Specify|The order of battle wikipages for both sides don't appear to have a general named Taylor, just Colonels|date=April 2011}} died in the house and was buried in ''[the]'' garden, but his body was removed several days later. Mrs. Barlow frequently visited the house''" (General [[Francis C. Barlow]] had been taken to the house after being wounded at [[Barlow Knoll]]<ref name=SS1931>{{Cite news |date=October 31, 1931 |title=Man Who Was Boy at Time of Battle is Dead |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PIolAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s_IFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1833,3639060&dq=harriet-group+round+top&hl=en |format=Google News Archives |newspaper=The Star and Sentinal |accessdate=2011-03-04}} Martin 2003 claims Barlow was instead subsequently taken to the John Crawford House and then Hoke's Toll House, citing "Francis C. Barlow letter to his mother, 7 July 1863.[http://books.google.com/books?id=hK5kYSmGAXkC&pg=PA461&lpg=PA461&dq=%22Josiah+Benner%22+Barlow+Gettysburg&source=bl&ots=aI4v3AM1A1&sig=QDhPAQJWnnpDj9Xv3Y2YJE1e01U&hl=en&ei=buWUTreFK9LaiQLzweH6BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=%22Josiah%20Benner%22%20Barlow%20Gettysburg&f=false]</ref> and initially being treated at the [http://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/344/ Josiah Benner farm] near the Harrisburg Road bridge over [[Rock Creek (Monocacy River)|Rock Creek]].[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P3lbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GlENAAAAIBAJ&pg=5420,4501796&dq=vincent-bushman+gettysburg&hl=en] The farm of {{Convert|34|acres|ha|abbr=on}} was subsequently purchased by the Group's son, Jacob, in 1891.[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=b9k9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=YDcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=7054,5401332&dq=john-group+round+top&hl=en]


===Visitor attractions===
===Visitor attractions===
In addition to the 1884 [[Round Top Park]] and 1888 [[Round Top Museum|Round Top Museum (Little Round Top Hotel) with the adjacent Rosensteel Park]], the community had 2 additional recreation groves:
;Little Round Top Park: '''Little Round Top Park'''<ref name=SS189501/><ref name=Herald>{{Cite news |date=August 12, 1884 |title=Little Round Top Park |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-BBCAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AbkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3220,3623003&dq=round-top-park&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |location=Baltimore, Maryland |newspaper=Sunday Herald |accessdate=2011-02-23 |quote=''The Park is fitted up with Dancing Pavilion, Dining Room, &c., &c. Dinner 50 cents. Lunch 25 cents. … Returning, leave Little Round Top Park at 4.45 P.M., arriving in Baltimore 7.55 P. M.''}}</ref> was an [[Trolley park|excursion park]] of {{Convert|15|acres|ha|abbr=on}}<ref name=GC188404/> east of [[Little Round Top]]<ref name=GC18840617/> near the end of the [[Round Top Branch]] and owned by the [[Gettysburg Railroad (1976–1996)|Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railroad]] ([[cf.]] [[Pine Grove Furnace State Park#Pine Grove Park|Pine Grove Park]]). The "[[Steam dummy|dumm]]y" [[Baldwin Locomotive Works |Baldwin steam engine]]<ref name=GC1884>{{Cite news |date=June 24, 1884 |title=Local Flashes'', ''Ox Roast on the Fourth'', & ''Excursions |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=9qGwjJavaBUC&dat=18840624&printsec=frontpage |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |page=3 |accessdate=2011-02-25 |quote=''D. S. Fuhrman…on the Gilbert property…will sell tickets covering fifteen baths for one dollar.''}}</ref> had begun pulling [[excursion]]s to the "hill" in June 1884, [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28767471 Ephram H. Minnigh] was the park manager,<ref name=GC188606/> and on July 4, [http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/bios/hoac/mcclellan-john-h.txt Colonel John H. McClellan] held a free ox roast at the park's "great Railroad pic-nic" for donations to benefit the [[Carlisle Indian Industrial School]].<ref name=GC1884/> The park had a large covered pavilion on June 17, 1884;<ref name=GC18840617/> a "large dining pavilion" completed on July 29, 1884;[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CFQmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JgAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2882,1199890&dq=round-top+railroad&hl=en]<!--column 1--> a "dance house" by July 1893;<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 20, 1893 |title=The Electric Line on the Battlefield |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=p3EmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ff8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4380,1718202&dq=round-top+dance+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2011-02-25 |quote=''...to the dance house... The trolley people propose to build a station just where Hancock was wounded.''}}</ref> and a cook house.[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Wck9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=JjcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6262,1527902&dq=round-top-park+1896&hl=en] Round Top Park had target shooting[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pVdAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ef8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5155,1149093&dq=round-top-park&hl=en] and its "[[Carousel|Merry-Go-Round]]" offered for sale in 1894.[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=of0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jAAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=5078,4999450&dq=round-top-park&hl=en] In 1886, the [[Gettysburg Battlefield#Memorial association era|Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association]] purchased "the grove in and around Round Top"[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cTwmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qP4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2129,2960203&dq=round-top-park&hl=en]<!-- |quote=''Round Top Park: The Battlefield Memorial Association have expended a good deal of money in the purchase and preservation of the grove in and around Round Top. … cannot be used for picnic purposes without the assent of the Association''}}</ref--> (removing the buildings in 1896);<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 13, 1896 |title=Town and Country |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Wck9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=JjcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6262,1527902&dq=round-top-park+1896&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=New Oxford Item |accessdate=2011-07-04 |quote=''The dancing pavilion, cook house and all other buildings have been removed from Round Top park by the Battlefield commission.''}}</ref> and on July 4, 1900, the former Round Top Park was used for the [[Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War|Tacony Rifles' encampment]].<ref group=G>{{Cite news |date=July 4, 1900 |title=Camping at Little Round Top |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jqglAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3vIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6174%2C4297069 |accessdate=2011-07-05 |quote=''The Tacony Rifles … arrived last Saturday evening and went into camp on the eastern side of Little Round Top, in what was '''formerly Round Top Park'''. … The boys have named their camp “Camp Costello.”''}} ([http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=9qGwjJavaBUC&dat=19000703&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 1900 Gettysburg Compiler article,] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TK4zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F-kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2543,390120&dq=round-top-park&hl=en 2000 "Out of the Past")]</ref>
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;Dr. Hudson's grove: "'''Dr. Hudson's grove'''"<ref group=G>{{Cite news |date=September 28, 1927 |title=Lively Reunion |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sqklAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rvUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1872,3997406&dq=dr-hudson+round-top&hl=en |work=Out of the Past: Twenty-Five Years Ago |accessdate=2011-02-26 <!--|quote=reunion of Hackmen's association-->}}</ref> was a picnic area with a boxing arena and 1898 social hall that was established by veterinarian [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6GcmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3f8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6630,2928988&dq=hudson+gettysburg+round-top&hl=en Edward Hudson.]<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 2, 1902 |title=We Have Another Park |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=OTBXYDkIvNoC&dat=19020702&printsec=frontpage |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2011-03-04 |quote=''Dr. E. D. Hudson has leased a plot of ground from the [[Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway|G. & H. Railway]] Company at Little Round Top and has fitted the same up as a park and has placed thereon a dancing floor for the use of excursion parties… It is a most pleasant spot for family pic-nics and is something we stood in need of since the abolishing of [[Tipton Station|Tipton's Park]] last fall.''}} (p. 3. col. 5)<br>
{{For|'''Crawford's Glen''',<ref name=Hamilton/> '''Tipton Park''', & '''Wheat-field Park'''<ref name=SS189501/> on the west side of [[Little Round Top]]|Samuel W. Crawford|Tipton Station|The Wheatfield}}

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;Hudson grove: "'''Dr. Hudson's grove'''"<ref group=G>{{Cite news |date=September 28, 1927 |title=Lively Reunion |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sqklAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rvUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1872,3997406&dq=dr-hudson+round-top&hl=en |work=Out of the Past: Twenty-Five Years Ago |accessdate=2011-02-26 <!--|quote=reunion of Hackmen's association-->}}</ref> was a picnic area with a boxing arena and 1898 social hall that was established by veterinarian [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6GcmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3f8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6630,2928988&dq=hudson+gettysburg+round-top&hl=en Edward Hudson.]<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 2, 1902 |title=We Have Another Park |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=OTBXYDkIvNoC&dat=19020702&printsec=frontpage |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2011-03-04 |quote=''Dr. E. D. Hudson has leased a plot of ground from the [[Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway|G. & H. Railway]] Company at Little Round Top and has fitted the same up as a park and has placed thereon a dancing floor for the use of excursion parties… It is a most pleasant spot for family pic-nics and is something we stood in need of since the abolishing of [[Tipton Station|Tipton's Park]] last fall.''}} (p. 3. col. 5)<br>
{{Cite news |title=Dr. E. D. Hudson Succumbs to Heart Attack |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ho0lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vfIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1139,5616313&dq=doctor-hudson+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2011-01-26}}<br>
{{Cite news |title=Dr. E. D. Hudson Succumbs to Heart Attack |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ho0lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vfIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1139,5616313&dq=doctor-hudson+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2011-01-26}}<br>
{{Cite news |date=August 20, 1898 |title=Town and Country |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=9qGwjJavaBUC&dat=18980830&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |work=Town and County |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-07-05 |quote=''Otto R. Klienke…interred…in Illinois lot of the [[Gettysburg National Cemetery|National Cemetery]] … A complimentary ball given at Dr. Hudson's new hall at Round-Top Park, Saturday evening, Sept. 3rd. Everybody invited. Good music in attendance.''}}</ref> Hudson's new stable at Round Top had burned down in 1897, [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZMk9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=JjcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1392,1965304&dq=dr-hudson+round-top&hl=en] and in January 1900, a tavern license was refused for Hudson's hotel.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 23, 1900 |title=Court news |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L-MyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1QAGAAAAIBAJ&dq=gettysburg%20lohr's-hill&pg=3563%2C8073490 |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-07-04}}</ref> On April 25, 1900, the Hudson property with the {{Convert|60|x|30|ft|m|abbr=on}} '''Hotel Sedgwick''' and stable was next to the school and offered for sale by the Sheriff;<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 10, 1900 |title=Sheriff's Sales |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gqglAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3vIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3747,4766544&dq=hotel-sedgwick+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2010-02-22 |quote=''adjoining '''Round Top School House ground''', the Round Top Branch of Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railroad, and lands of Peter D. Swisher.''}}</ref> and after being unable to sell the property by July 4, 1900;[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jqglAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3vIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3138%2C4292685] Hudson later offered the property with "Store Room" for sale in 1905.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 22, 1905 |title=Assignee's Sale |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PoglAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4_IFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5301,1672785&dq=round-top-school&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2011-02-24 |quote=''EDWARD D. HUDSON AND JENNIE M., HIS WIFE, in trust for the benefit for his creditors … adjoining lands of the [[Gettysburg Electric Railway]] Company, Peter D. Swisher and the '''Round Top Public School property''', containing about '''44 perches''', and ''[with a 2½]'' story frame dwelling house and Store Room, good frame Stable and Outbuildings.''}}</ref>
{{Cite news |date=August 20, 1898 |title=Town and Country |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=9qGwjJavaBUC&dat=18980830&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |work=Town and County |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-07-05 |quote=''Otto R. Klienke…interred…in Illinois lot of the [[Gettysburg National Cemetery|National Cemetery]] … A complimentary ball given at Dr. Hudson's new hall at Round-Top Park, Saturday evening, Sept. 3rd. Everybody invited. Good music in attendance.''}}</ref> Hudson's new stable at Round Top had burned down in 1897, [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZMk9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=JjcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1392,1965304&dq=dr-hudson+round-top&hl=en] and in January 1900, a tavern license was refused for Hudson's hotel.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 23, 1900 |title=Court news |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L-MyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1QAGAAAAIBAJ&dq=gettysburg%20lohr's-hill&pg=3563%2C8073490 |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-07-04}}</ref> On April 25, 1900, the Hudson property with the {{Convert|60|x|30|ft|m|abbr=on}} '''Hotel Sedgwick''' and stable was next to the school and offered for sale by the Sheriff;<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 10, 1900 |title=Sheriff's Sales |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gqglAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3vIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3747,4766544&dq=hotel-sedgwick+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2010-02-22 |quote=''adjoining '''Round Top School House ground''', the Round Top Branch of Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railroad, and lands of Peter D. Swisher.''}}</ref> and after being unable to sell the property by July 4, 1900;[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jqglAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3vIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3138%2C4292685] Hudson leased the grove in 1902 from the [[Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway]], and later offered his owned tract with "Store Room" for sale in 1905.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 22, 1905 |title=Assignee's Sale |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PoglAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4_IFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5301,1672785&dq=round-top-school&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2011-02-24 |quote=''EDWARD D. HUDSON AND JENNIE M., HIS WIFE, in trust for the benefit for his creditors … adjoining lands of the [[Gettysburg Electric Railway]] Company, Peter D. Swisher and the '''Round Top Public School property''', containing about '''44 perches''', and ''[with a 2½]'' story frame dwelling house and Store Room, good frame Stable and Outbuildings.''}}</ref>

;Round Top Museum: The '''Round Top Museum''' was established by John H. Rosensteel in 1888 on the north foot of [[Little Round Top]]<ref group=G>{{Cite news |last=Platt |first=Barbara |date=November 15, 2007 |title=Rosensteels could buy naming rights |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FoYlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pPQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4214,1468020&dq=rosensteel+round-top+museum&hl=en |work=As our readers see it |accessdate=2011-01-26}}</ref> and northeast of the [[Wheatfield Road]] and Grand Central Avenue (now Sedgwick Av) intersection. The museum of [[Battle of Gettysburg]] artifacts was in Rosensteel's 1884 frame home<ref group=G name=GT1885/> and served as the "'''Round Top inn'''"<ref group=G>{{Cite news |date=February 12, 1935 |title=Rotarians are Hosts to Ladies Monday Evening |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zQcmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ef0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4887,1438870&dq=gilbert+round-top+gettysburg&hl=en |accessdate=2011-02-26}}</ref> restaurant/small hotel.<ref group=G name=GT1952>{{Cite news |date=April 30, 1952 |title=Story of Old Trolley Line Told to Club |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s9wlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3080,46849&dq=rosensteel+pavilion+dancing+gettysburg&hl=en |accessdate=2011-02-26}} '''NOTE''': North of the Round Top station on the [[Round Top Branch]] was the [[Round Top Branch#Hancock Station|Hancock Station]] near the battlefield's Vermont Memorial on Grand Central Avenue ("Hancock" Av by 1886).[http://books.google.com/books?id=Fi4tAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6]</ref> On the east side of the residence, construction began in March 1902[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mNwlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2415,2292212&dq=john-rosensteel+round-top&hl=en] for a "dancing pavilion" lit with [[Carbide lamp|acetelyne lamps]] that opened on May 25, 1902.<ref group=G>{{Cite news |date=May 25, 1927 |title=Local Miscellany |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-OIlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=o_UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2075,2259040&dq=rosensteel+pavilion+dancing+gettysburg&hl=en |work=Out of the Past: Twenty-Five Years Ago |accessdate=2011-02-18 |quote=''The G. A. R. band gave a very enjoyable concert in [[Town square#USA|the Diamond]] last Friday evening and "the next day it rained." … The dancing pavilion recently erected by John Rosensteel at Round Top was formally opened Friday evening. The floor was beautifully illuminated with acetylene lamps.''}}</ref> A 1906 [[:wiktionary:hop#Noun|hop]] was held at the "'''Little Round Top Hotel'''",[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=H4ctAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XJwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6403,4561883&dq=camp-henderson+gettysburg&hl=en]<!--column 2--> the "Round Top dance pavilion" was the site of a 1918 fire[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rUdgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GHENAAAAIBAJ&pg=4736,7168592&dq=rosensteel+round-top&hl=en] and a 1925 stabbing,<ref group=G>{{Cite news |date=September 15, 1925 |title=Two Are Stabbed in Cutting Affray… |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xb0lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fPsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2059,370971&dq=round-top+dance+gettysburg&hl=en |accessdate=2011-02-24}}</ref> and picnics at '''Rosensteel Park''' were held as late as 1957.[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sE4mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=W_8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=848,2466857&dq=rosensteel-park&hl=en]] The facility also included a store where a [[Camp Renaissance]] CCC worker committed a theft in 1936.[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mQ4mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4_wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2787,4393580&dq=rosensteel+round-top&hl=en] The Round Top Museum and the 1921 [[Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center|Rosensteel electric map museum]] on [[Cemetery Ridge]] were owned by the Gettysburg National Museum corporation until 1964,<ref group=G name=GT1964>{{Cite news |last=Miller |first=Bernard V |date=May 19, 1971 |title=Action to Quiet Title to the Heirs…of Margaret E. Rosensteel |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=unYlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1fIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5937,2453479&dq=james-rider+barlow&hl=en |work=Legal Notices |accessdate=2010-03-04}}</ref> and the Round Top Museum became part of the [[Gettysburg National Military Park]] in 1971 which used the building as an environmental resource center until it was demolished c. 1982.<ref group=G>{{Cite news |date=December 28, 1971 |title=Nature Study Areas Are Set For Park Here |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7K0lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4fIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5014,383941&dq=round-top-museum&hl=en |accessdate=2011-01-26}}
<br>{{Cite news |date=July 5, 1973 |title=Two Special Park Walks This Summer |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BlYzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rfIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4708,4547548&dq=round-top-museum&hl=en |accessdate=2011-01-26}}
<br>{{Cite news |last=De Blasi |first=Nancy |date=June 11, 1982 |title=Draft of park plan will be printed soon |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BttcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P1gNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4569,4265607&dq=round-top-museum&hl=en |accessdate=2011-01-26}}</ref> Part of the museum's collection is in the GNMP's set of 43,000 [[American Civil War]] artifacts displayed in the 2008 [[Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center]].[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jiNaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4EsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1331,4924500&dq=civil-war-preservation-trust+gettysburg&hl=en]


;Cunningham Grove: '''Cunningham Grove''' east of Little Round Top<ref name=Commission-20>{{Cite Gettysburg Commission Reports|version=1920|dateform=mdy}}</ref> was used for picnics as early as July 26, 1879.<ref group=G>{{Cite news |date=June 21, 1954 |title=Local Items |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1ygmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=E_4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2279,5934775&dq=cunningham-grove+gettysburg&hl=en |work=Out of the Past: Seventy-Five Years Ago |accessdate=2011-02-24}}</ref> After the 1904 eminent domain jury for ''United States v. Five Tracts of land'' was formed<ref>{{Cite court |litigants=United States v. Five Tracts of land |court=[[United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit|United States Circuit Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]; |vol= |year=[http://books.google.com/books?id=u34AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA321 October 2, 1900] }} April 20, 1904: "P. M. Bikle...John A. Himes, Kerr Lott...Wm. A. Martin, James F. Bell...John C. Group...and David Maring...have been appointed a jury of viewers to condem...ten acres owned by Mrs. Cunningham near Round Top".[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9P0lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qvIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1418,8437044&dq=john-group+round+top&hl=en]</ref> regarding [[Battle of Gettysburg, First Day|Reynolds Grove]] and a Round Top tract,<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 20, 1904 |title=Round About Town |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9P0lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qvIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1418,8437044&dq=john-group+round-top&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-02-28 |quote=''…John C. Group, of Idaville, and David Maring, of Cumberland township, have been appointed a jury of viewers to condemn five tracts of land on the battlefield, '''ten acres owned by Mrs. Cunningham near Round Top''' and four tracts belonging to the Land Improvement Co. near Reynolds Grove along Chambersburg pike.''}}</ref> the "tract of land belonging to Florence and [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61676599 Georgianna Cunningham"]<ref name=Commission-06>{{Cite Gettysburg Commission Reports|version=1906|dateform=mdy}}</ref> (different from the "Round Top Park property of [the] Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad")<ref name=Commission-96>{{Cite Gettysburg Commission Reports|version=1896|dateform=mdy}}</ref> was transferred on September 18, 1905.[http://books.google.com/books?id=u34AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA321] In 1923, the [[funfair]] for the [[Adams County, Pennsylvania|Adams County]] firemen's convention was held in the woods across from the Rosensteel pavilion with a "barker's alley" that included [[Carnival game#Games of Chance|ten-pin stands, blanket and Kewpie doll wheels, knife and cane stands]], and "[[African dodger|Hit-the-Coon]]" games (2,000 cars were parked in 3 fields).<ref group=G>{{Cite news |date=August 21, 1923 |title=Plan Big Fair for Labor Day |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RqElAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HvgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1837,1023910&dq=rosensteel+ten-pin&hl=en |accessdate=2011-04-26}}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{{Cite news |date=September 4, 1923 |title=Crowds Attend Annual Picnic |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UKElAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HvgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2883,501103&dq=2000-automobiles-strained&hl=en |accessdate=2011-03-04}}</ref>
;Cunningham Grove: '''Cunningham Grove''' east of Little Round Top<ref name=Commission-20>{{Cite Gettysburg Commission Reports|version=1920|dateform=mdy}}</ref> was used for picnics as early as July 26, 1879.<ref group=G>{{Cite news |date=June 21, 1954 |title=Local Items |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1ygmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=E_4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2279,5934775&dq=cunningham-grove+gettysburg&hl=en |work=Out of the Past: Seventy-Five Years Ago |accessdate=2011-02-24}}</ref> After the 1904 eminent domain jury for ''United States v. Five Tracts of land'' was formed<ref>{{Cite court |litigants=United States v. Five Tracts of land |court=[[United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit|United States Circuit Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]; |vol= |year=[http://books.google.com/books?id=u34AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA321 October 2, 1900] }} April 20, 1904: "P. M. Bikle...John A. Himes, Kerr Lott...Wm. A. Martin, James F. Bell...John C. Group...and David Maring...have been appointed a jury of viewers to condem...ten acres owned by Mrs. Cunningham near Round Top".[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9P0lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qvIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1418,8437044&dq=john-group+round+top&hl=en]</ref> regarding [[Battle of Gettysburg, First Day|Reynolds Grove]] and a Round Top tract,<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 20, 1904 |title=Round About Town |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9P0lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qvIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1418,8437044&dq=john-group+round-top&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-02-28 |quote=''…John C. Group, of Idaville, and David Maring, of Cumberland township, have been appointed a jury of viewers to condemn five tracts of land on the battlefield, '''ten acres owned by Mrs. Cunningham near Round Top''' and four tracts belonging to the Land Improvement Co. near Reynolds Grove along Chambersburg pike.''}}</ref> the "tract of land belonging to Florence and [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61676599 Georgianna Cunningham"]<ref name=Commission-06>{{Cite Gettysburg Commission Reports|version=1906|dateform=mdy}}</ref> (different from the "Round Top Park property of [the] Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad")<ref name=Commission-96>{{Cite Gettysburg Commission Reports|version=1896|dateform=mdy}}</ref> was transferred on September 18, 1905.[http://books.google.com/books?id=u34AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA321] In 1923, the [[funfair]] for the [[Adams County, Pennsylvania|Adams County]] firemen's convention was held in the woods across from the Rosensteel pavilion with a "barker's alley" that included [[Carnival game#Games of Chance|ten-pin stands, blanket and Kewpie doll wheels, knife and cane stands]], and "[[African dodger|Hit-the-Coon]]" games (2,000 cars were parked in 3 fields).<ref group=G>{{Cite news |date=August 21, 1923 |title=Plan Big Fair for Labor Day |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RqElAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HvgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1837,1023910&dq=rosensteel+ten-pin&hl=en |accessdate=2011-04-26}}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{{Cite news |date=September 4, 1923 |title=Crowds Attend Annual Picnic |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UKElAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HvgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2883,501103&dq=2000-automobiles-strained&hl=en |accessdate=2011-03-04}}</ref>
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{{For|the 95 in the 1941 Round Top [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scout]] district with 95 scouts<ref group=G name=GT194110/> (4 troops in York Springs-Troop 89, Dillsburg-38, East Berlin-111, Wellsville-33, & York Springs-89 at {{Coord|40.103745|76.926098}})|Round Top (Pennsylvania)}}
{{For|the 95 in the 1941 Round Top [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scout]] district with 95 scouts<ref group=G name=GT194110/> (4 troops in York Springs-Troop 89, Dillsburg-38, East Berlin-111, Wellsville-33, & York Springs-89 at {{Coord|40.103745|76.926098}})|Round Top (Pennsylvania)}}


The community was the [[eponym]] for the Round Top hunting[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=W4YlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wfIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2000,2552366&dq=gettysburg+mcglaughlin+round-top&hl=en] and economics clubs,[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xWgmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Mf8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=837,97217&dq=round-top-economics+gettysburg&hl=en] and 20th century retail businesses at Round Top included the 1904-1960 [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19036335 Epley] Blacksmith Shop,[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uzwmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vP4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3256,1166044&dq=epley+blacksmith-shop&hl=en] the 1916 Round Top Fruit Farm,[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cKwlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5808,3294260&dq=ketterman+round-top&hl=en] a Chevrolet dealership (#940 Taneytown Road, [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ToklAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ufIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1323,4060726&dq=lloyd-rothhaupt+1936&hl=en site of a 1936 barn fire)], the brick <!--Ike -->McGlaughlin general store (#770), and the 1950-1965 [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55191443 Shorty's] Repair Shop on the Wheatfield Rd.[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nJ4lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zPQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4599,2236133&dq=lawrence-tressler+gettysburg&hl=en] A fast food concession built in 1962-3<!-- (Frosty Treat, Tropical Treat, Chuck Wagon, Corbin's BBQ)--> remains on the southwest corner of the Wheatfield and Taneytown roads (#885), north of which is a 21st century roadside produce stand (#855).
The community was the [[eponym]] for the Round Top hunting[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=W4YlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wfIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2000,2552366&dq=gettysburg+mcglaughlin+round-top&hl=en] and economics clubs,[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xWgmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Mf8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=837,97217&dq=round-top-economics+gettysburg&hl=en] and 20th century retail businesses at Round Top included the 1904-1960 [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19036335 Epley] Blacksmith Shop,[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uzwmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vP4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3256,1166044&dq=epley+blacksmith-shop&hl=en] the 1916 Round Top Fruit Farm,[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cKwlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5808,3294260&dq=ketterman+round-top&hl=en] an early 20th century automobile dealership (#940 Taneytown Road, [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ToklAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ufIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1323,4060726&dq=lloyd-rothhaupt+1936&hl=en site of a 1936 barn fire)], the brick <!--Ike -->McGlaughlin general store (#770), and the 1950-1965 [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55191443 Shorty's] Repair Shop on the Wheatfield Rd.[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nJ4lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zPQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4599,2236133&dq=lawrence-tressler+gettysburg&hl=en] A fast food concession built in 1962-3<!-- (Frosty Treat, Tropical Treat, Chuck Wagon, Corbin's BBQ)--> remains on the southwest corner of the Wheatfield and Taneytown roads (#885), north of which is a 21st century roadside produce stand (#855).


==References==
==References==
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<ref name=Gitt>{{Cite news |last=Gitt |first=Joseph S |date=February 9, 1884 - published February 19 |title=Baltimore and Harrisburg Railroad |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8lMmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JgAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4488,255825&dq=fuller+round-top+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |work=Adams County Railroads: Concluded |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-07-05 |quote=''In August, 1882, I made surveys ''[for]'' the purpose of extending the {{sic|[[Gettysburg Railroad]]}} to Round-Top for excursion purposes ''[by]'' the “Round-Top Railroad Company,” to build a line from Gettysburg… capital stock, $25,000, and A. W. Eichelberger President. The directors are Wm. Grumbine, Reuben Young, Peter Flickinger, B. M. Wirt, R. A. Eichelberger, H. A. Young, [[David Wills (Gettysburg)|David Wills]], H. D. Scott.''}}</ref>
<ref name=Gitt>{{Cite news |last=Gitt |first=Joseph S |date=February 9, 1884 - published February 19 |title=Baltimore and Harrisburg Railroad |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8lMmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JgAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4488,255825&dq=fuller+round-top+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |work=Adams County Railroads: Concluded |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-07-05 |quote=''In August, 1882, I made surveys ''[for]'' the purpose of extending the {{sic|[[Gettysburg Railroad]]}} to Round-Top for excursion purposes ''[by]'' the “Round-Top Railroad Company,” to build a line from Gettysburg… capital stock, $25,000, and A. W. Eichelberger President. The directors are Wm. Grumbine, Reuben Young, Peter Flickinger, B. M. Wirt, R. A. Eichelberger, H. A. Young, [[David Wills (Gettysburg)|David Wills]], H. D. Scott.''}}</ref>


<ref name=GC188404>{{Cite news |date=April 29, 1884 |title=The New Railroad: Its Pictures, Round-Top Branch, &c. |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-1MmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JgAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1450%2C673522 |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-05-11 |quote=''Lewis A. Bushman has contracted with Joseph J. Smith for the erection of a warehouse and dwelling at the terminus of the branch, on the Taneytown road. The railroad company has purchased a tract of 15 acres from Mr. Bushman between the Taneytown road and Little Round-Top for excursion purposes.''}}</ref>
<!--ref name=GC188404>{{Cite news |date=April 29, 1884 |title=The New Railroad: Its Pictures, Round-Top Branch, &c. |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-1MmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JgAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1450%2C673522 |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-05-11 |quote=''Lewis A. Bushman has contracted with Joseph J. Smith for the erection of a warehouse and dwelling at the terminus of the branch, on the Taneytown road. The railroad company has purchased a tract of 15 acres from Mr. Bushman between the Taneytown road and Little Round-Top for excursion purposes.''}}</ref-->


<ref name=GC18840617>{{Cite news |date=June 17, 1884 |title=Local Items |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MVsmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Xf8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6005%2C1239434 |format=Google News Archives |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel|accessdate=2011-07-04 |quote=''The Round Top extension of the new railroad was completed last week, ready for excursion tours. The work of blocking up and ballasting is in progress. A large covered pavilion has been erected in the grove east of Round Top. [[William H. Tipton|Burgess Tipton]], with an eye to business, has put up a photographic gallery on the grounds.''}}</ref>
<!--ref name=GC18840617>{{Cite news |date=June 17, 1884 |title=Local Items |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MVsmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Xf8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6005%2C1239434 |format=Google News Archives |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel|accessdate=2011-07-04 |quote=''The Round Top extension of the new railroad was completed last week, ready for excursion tours. The work of blocking up and ballasting is in progress. A large covered pavilion has been erected in the grove east of Round Top. [[William H. Tipton|Burgess Tipton]], with an eye to business, has put up a photographic gallery on the grounds.''}}</ref-->


<ref name=GC188606>{{Cite news |date=June 29, 1886 |title=Round-Top Park Now Open |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a1QmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JgAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3009,5200551&dq=round-top-park&hl=en |format=Google News archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-10-11 |quote=Round-trip trains are run from Gettysburg morning and evening.}}</ref>
<!--ref name=GC188606>{{Cite news |date=June 29, 1886 |title=Round-Top Park Now Open |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a1QmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JgAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3009,5200551&dq=round-top-park&hl=en |format=Google News archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-10-11 |quote=Round-trip trains are run from Gettysburg morning and evening.}}</ref-->


<ref name=SS189501>{{Cite news |date=January 22, 1895 |title=Hoffer Sells Out |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1VAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=g_8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4876,1954178&dq=stonesifer+gettysburg+round-top&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2011-02-24 |quote=''Agreements with William Wible for the use of the [[The Wheatfield|Wheat-field Park]], containing 25 acres, at the rate of $5 per day for each excursion to said park by the said Railway Company. Lease from year to year from the [[Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad]] Company of “Little Round Top Park” at a rent of $25 a year.''}}</ref>
<!--ref name=SS189501>{{Cite news |date=January 22, 1895 |title=Hoffer Sells Out |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1VAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=g_8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4876,1954178&dq=stonesifer+gettysburg+round-top&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2011-02-24 |quote=''Agreements with William Wible for the use of the [[The Wheatfield|Wheat-field Park]], containing 25 acres, at the rate of $5 per day for each excursion to said park by the said Railway Company. Lease from year to year from the [[Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad]] Company of “Little Round Top Park” at a rent of $25 a year.''}}</ref-->
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;G. {{cite news |title=Gettysburg Times Archives |url=http://www.gettysburgtimes.com/archives/ |newspaper=[[Gettysburg Times]] |publisher=Times and News Publishing Company |accessdate=2010-02-20}} References at the [[Google News]] Archive<nowiki>:</nowiki>
;G. {{cite news |title=Gettysburg Times Archives |url=http://www.gettysburgtimes.com/archives/ |newspaper=[[Gettysburg Times]] |publisher=Times and News Publishing Company |accessdate=2010-02-20}} References at the [[Google News]] Archive<nowiki>:</nowiki>
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Round Top, Pennsylvania, is a populated place near Little Round Top that is notable for 2 Battle of Gettysburg hospitals, the 1884 Round Top Station, and several battlefield commemorative era attractions such as Round Top Park and the Round Top Museum. The unincorporated community lies on an elevated area of the north-south Taneytown Road with 3 intersections at Blacksmith Shop Road to the northeast, Wheatfield Road (west from "Roundtop"), and Sachs Road (east from "Sedgwick").[1]

History

After an 1808 proposal,[2] the Taneytown Road was constructed southward from Gettysburg past the east of the Round Tops and by 1858, 2 crossroads had been built to the area with 3 homes (north-to-south: "Geo Bishop", "E. Brickert", & "J. Group") that would become Round Top:[3] Wheatfield Rd on the west across the north foot of Little Round Top to the Emmitsburg Road and Sachs Rd eastward across Rock Creek.[3] In 1884, the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad built a steamtrain railroad to the Round Top Station, which operated until c. 1942 when the branch's abandonment application was filed.[3] In 1894 on a different railway from the west, the Gettysburg Electric Railway began trolley operations to the station.[G 1]

Sedgwick Post Office
After an 1884 refreshment stand opened in a "shanty at the base[which?] of Little Round Top",[4] the 1884 house[G 2] of postmaster Lewis A. Bushman[4] was announced on July 20, 1886,[5] as the location for the Sedgwick Post Office,[G 3] which opened on August 2.[5] In addition to serving the local area until Rural Free Delivery began, the post office was the transfer point for mail southward on the Taneytown Rd to Horner's Mill near Rock Creek and its subsequent 1890 Barlow post office. Bushman offered the Sedgwick Post Office and Store Room tract for sale with a chopping mill, peach orchard, and warehouse on July 28, 1891;[G 3] and S. V. Bushman had the merchant license in 1892[6] and sold the tract to James F. Rider in 1901.[G 4] Rider, who near Round Top in 1888 had sold his father's tract of 13 acres (5.3 ha) with "lot of fruit and grapes",[7] operated the Sedgwick store through 1915;[6] and Charles C. Rider offered the tract with 8 room house for sale in 1928.[G 5] The tract was purchased by the Round Top Museum owners in 1965[G 4] and was transferred along with the museum to the GNMP in 1971.
Round Top School
The one-room 1889[7] Round Top School was where the 1892 township citizens group formed to oppose the Gettysburg Electric Railway (cf. United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry. Co.).[8] Teachers included William A. Taughinbaugh, Elizabeth Lott, John W. Black (in 1903), Mary Rudisill (1909), Myrtle L. Shealy (1922), Martha Epley (1928), Mary L. Leas (1936) & Robert Ellis Fisher (1937,[G 6] 1938), Mrs Marion Milllhimes (1942), Frances Gilbert (1947), and Mrs. Mary B. Trout (1948). The school closed in 1948, was sold in 1952,[G 7] had renovations planned in 1972,[9] and was deemed historically "not significant" in 2004.[7]
For the Template:External link 4 miles E[8] of Gettysburg at 2276 York Rd near Granite station, see Straban Township.

Visitor attractions

In addition to the 1884 Round Top Park and 1888 Round Top Museum (Little Round Top Hotel) with the adjacent Rosensteel Park, the community had 2 additional recreation groves:

Dr. Hudson's grove
"Dr. Hudson's grove"[G 8] was a picnic area with a boxing arena and 1898 social hall that was established by veterinarian Edward Hudson.[9] Hudson's new stable at Round Top had burned down in 1897, [10] and in January 1900, a tavern license was refused for Hudson's hotel.[10] On April 25, 1900, the Hudson property with the 60 ft × 30 ft (18.3 m × 9.1 m) Hotel Sedgwick and stable was next to the school and offered for sale by the Sheriff;[11] and after being unable to sell the property by July 4, 1900;[11] Hudson leased the grove in 1902 from the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway, and later offered his owned tract with "Store Room" for sale in 1905.[12]
Cunningham Grove
Cunningham Grove east of Little Round Top[13] was used for picnics as early as July 26, 1879.[G 9] After the 1904 eminent domain jury for United States v. Five Tracts of land was formed[14] regarding Reynolds Grove and a Round Top tract,[15] the "tract of land belonging to Florence and Georgianna Cunningham"[16] (different from the "Round Top Park property of [the] Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad")[17] was transferred on September 18, 1905.[12] In 1923, the funfair for the Adams County firemen's convention was held in the woods across from the Rosensteel pavilion with a "barker's alley" that included ten-pin stands, blanket and Kewpie doll wheels, knife and cane stands, and "Hit-the-Coon" games (2,000 cars were parked in 3 fields).[G 10]
For the 95 in the 1941 Round Top Boy Scout district with 95 scouts[G 11] (4 troops in York Springs-Troop 89, Dillsburg-38, East Berlin-111, Wellsville-33, & York Springs-89 at 40°06′13″N 76°55′34″E / 40.103745°N 76.926098°E / 40.103745; 76.926098), see Round Top (Pennsylvania).

The community was the eponym for the Round Top hunting[13] and economics clubs,[14] and 20th century retail businesses at Round Top included the 1904-1960 Epley Blacksmith Shop,[15] the 1916 Round Top Fruit Farm,[16] an early 20th century automobile dealership (#940 Taneytown Road, site of a 1936 barn fire), the brick McGlaughlin general store (#770), and the 1950-1965 Shorty's Repair Shop on the Wheatfield Rd.[17] A fast food concession built in 1962-3 remains on the southwest corner of the Wheatfield and Taneytown roads (#885), north of which is a 21st century roadside produce stand (#855).

References

  1. ^ Map of Adams County (Map). PA Department of Highways. March 1958.
  2. ^ petition for road (approved), Adams County court {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help) (cited by Geiselman p. 87)
  3. ^ a b G. M. Hopkins survey (SimmonsGames.com mapviewer) (Map). M.S. & E. Converse. 1858. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
  4. ^ Krauth, Jno M, et al (GBMA secretaries) (January 5, 1892). "Executive Committee Minutes of the Gettysburg Battlefield Association" (transcription by Kathleen R. Georg). Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association. Retrieved 2011-07-05. Resolved, That the chairman of the Board be requested to confer with Gen. S. W. Crawford, as to the conveyance of his property, in front of Little Round Top, commonly known as Crawford's Glen, to the Battlefield Memorial Association. … 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Sedgwick" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler. July 20, 1886. Retrieved 2011-07-05. The name of "Round-Top" could not be retained because of another "Round-Top" in the State, and the same was found to be the case in regard to Hancock and Vincent. …Mrs. Lydia Leister…slipped and fell and broke her right limb. {{cite news}}: More than one of |work= and |newspaper= specified (help) (1986 Out of the Past)
  6. ^ "James F. Rider" (Google News Archive). The Star and Sentinel. August 12, 1916. Retrieved 2011-02-25. he purchased the store property at Sedgwick, (Litte Round Top) and he conducted a general store business there until his health failed. {{cite news}}: More than one of |work= and |newspaper= specified (help)
  7. ^ a b "Round Top Schoolhouse". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. Retrieved tbd. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); External link in |work= (help)
  8. ^ "Machine Swerves into Side Gutter". The Star and Sentinel. October 5, 1914. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |accessdate-2011-02= ignored (help) (The Round Top/Granite Station school closed 1951.)[1]
  9. ^ "We Have Another Park" (Google News Archive). The Star and Sentinel. July 2, 1902. Retrieved 2011-03-04. Dr. E. D. Hudson has leased a plot of ground from the G. & H. Railway Company at Little Round Top and has fitted the same up as a park and has placed thereon a dancing floor for the use of excursion parties… It is a most pleasant spot for family pic-nics and is something we stood in need of since the abolishing of Tipton's Park last fall. (p. 3. col. 5)
    "Dr. E. D. Hudson Succumbs to Heart Attack" (Google News Archive). The Star and Sentinel. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
    "Town and Country" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler. August 20, 1898. Retrieved 2011-07-05. Otto R. Klienke…interred…in Illinois lot of the National Cemetery … A complimentary ball given at Dr. Hudson's new hall at Round-Top Park, Saturday evening, Sept. 3rd. Everybody invited. Good music in attendance. {{cite news}}: More than one of |work= and |newspaper= specified (help)
  10. ^ "Court news" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler. January 23, 1900. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
  11. ^ "Sheriff's Sales" (Google News Archive). The Star and Sentinel. April 10, 1900. Retrieved 2010-02-22. adjoining Round Top School House ground, the Round Top Branch of Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railroad, and lands of Peter D. Swisher.
  12. ^ "Assignee's Sale" (Google News Archive). The Star and Sentinel. February 22, 1905. Retrieved 2011-02-24. EDWARD D. HUDSON AND JENNIE M., HIS WIFE, in trust for the benefit for his creditors … adjoining lands of the Gettysburg Electric Railway Company, Peter D. Swisher and the Round Top Public School property, containing about 44 perches, and [with a 2½] story frame dwelling house and Store Room, good frame Stable and Outbuildings.
  13. ^ Gettysburg National Military Park Commission (July 1, 1920). "Report of the Gettysburg National Military Park Commission". The Gettysburg Commission Reports. Gettysburg, PA: War Department.
  14. ^ United States v. Five Tracts of land (United States Circuit Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; October 2, 1900). April 20, 1904: "P. M. Bikle...John A. Himes, Kerr Lott...Wm. A. Martin, James F. Bell...John C. Group...and David Maring...have been appointed a jury of viewers to condem...ten acres owned by Mrs. Cunningham near Round Top".[2]
  15. ^ "Round About Town" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler. April 20, 1904. Retrieved 2011-02-28. …John C. Group, of Idaville, and David Maring, of Cumberland township, have been appointed a jury of viewers to condemn five tracts of land on the battlefield, ten acres owned by Mrs. Cunningham near Round Top and four tracts belonging to the Land Improvement Co. near Reynolds Grove along Chambersburg pike.
  16. ^ Gettysburg National Military Park Commission (July 20, 1906). "Report of the Gettysburg National Military Park Commission". The Gettysburg Commission Reports. Gettysburg, PA: War Department.
  17. ^ Gettysburg National Military Park Commission (October 21, 1896). "Annual Report of the Gettysburg National Military Park Commission to the Secretary of War, 1896". The Gettysburg Commission Reports. Gettysburg, PA: War Department.
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G. "Gettysburg Times Archives". Gettysburg Times. Times and News Publishing Company. Retrieved 2010-02-20. References at the Google News Archive:
  1. ^ "Story of Old Trolley Line Told to Club". April 30, 1952. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
  2. ^ "Improvements". Out of the Past: 100 Years Ago. May 7, 1985. Retrieved 2011-02-24. About 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon the stable of Mr. George Englebert, on Seminary ridge, took fire…
  3. ^ a b "Private Sale". July 28, 1891. Retrieved 2011-02-23. PRIVATE SALE --OF-- A DESIRABLE BUSINESS RESIDENCE AT ROUND-TOP STATION. THE undersigned offers at Private Sale the Bushman residence at Round-Top. Said residence consisisting of a fine large FRAME HOUSE, including the Sedgwick Post Office and Store Room, good well of water at the door, good Barn, Chicken House, Chopping Mill and all necessary out-buildings. Fruit in abundance, including a good Peach Orchard. About 4 Acres of land and a new Warehouse at the Round-Top R. R. Station. Buildings all built within the last five years. …apply to GEORGE BUSHMAN, SR., OR GEORGE J. BUSHMAN, JR., Mar. 10, 1891. tf. Gettysburg, Pa. {{cite news}}: External link in |quote= (help)
  4. ^ a b Miller, Bernard V (May 19, 1971). "Legal Notices: Action to Quiet Title to Annie E. Riley and S. Vincent Bushman…". Retrieved 2011-10-11. by land…of Gettysburg-Harrisburg Railroad Company North…150 feet…West 171 feet to a stone; thence by land now or formerly of said School District South…116 feet…70 perches   NOTE: This legal notice states an unrecorded 1901 deed "cannot be found", but the position of this 70 perches tract east of the school is comparable to the 44 perches tract east of the school that Hudson & wife offered for sale in 1905 (see "Assignee's Sale").
  5. ^ "Classified Ads. - Real Estate For Sale". January 23, 1928. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
  6. ^ "Re-Name Cumberland Township Teachers". May 20, 1937. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
  7. ^ "Public Sale of Valuable Real Estate". February 8, 1952. Retrieved 2011-07-04. bounded on the North by Donald Swisher, on the South by the public road, on the East by Lawrence Tressler and on the West by U. S. Government and Emory Rosensteel, containing 78 perches
  8. ^ "Lively Reunion". Out of the Past: Twenty-Five Years Ago. September 28, 1927. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
  9. ^ "Local Items". Out of the Past: Seventy-Five Years Ago. June 21, 1954. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
  10. ^ "Plan Big Fair for Labor Day". August 21, 1923. Retrieved 2011-04-26.   "Crowds Attend Annual Picnic". September 4, 1923. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
  11. ^ "Round Top District Holds Banquet Meet" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Times. October 25, 1941. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
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