Report to the Chief Architect on the Historic Farm Groups: Gettysburg National Military Park
Howry C. 1936. Report to the Chief Architect on the Historic Farm Groups: Gettysburg National Military Park. Historic Grounds Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, the Union victory that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North. Often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the Rebellion", Gettysburg was the Civil War's bloodiest battle and was also the inspiration for President Abraham Lincoln's immortal "Gettysburg Address". The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. This report surveys twelve farm groups and one barn located in the park which have been given historic significance by the fact that they existed at the time of the battle of Gettysburg. No record of these buildings had ever been made until the Civil Works Administration provided funds to record the buildings in these groups. They are battle-scarred and form a definite part of the scheme both pictorially and graphically in that they mark points of interest and action.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Howry, Cornelius
- Date of Issue
- 1936-02-26
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- GETT , NER
- Keywords
- agriculture, Civil War, farms, homestead, Robert E. Lee, vernacular architecture