Historic Structures Report, Part I: Basil Biggs Farm Buildings
Tilberg F. 1958. Historic Structures Report, Part I: Basil Biggs Farm Buildings. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
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 historic structures report surveys the buildings comprising the Biggs Farm group, located adjacent to Taneytown Road, approximately 200 yards south of Meade's Headquarters. In the group are ten structures including the House, which is the only historic building in the group.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Tilberg, Frederick
- Date of Issue
- 1958-12-11
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- GETT , NER
- Keywords
- agriculture, Biggs, Civil War, farms, homestead, Robert E. Lee, vernacular architecture
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 081316: Basil Biggs Farm - Kitchen Pump & Well , CRIS-HS: 006926: Basil Biggs Farm Barn , CRIS-HS: 081013: Basil Biggs Farm Boundary Stone Walls , CRIS-HS: 081014: Basil Biggs Farm Field Stone Wall , CRIS-HS: 000444: Basil Biggs Farm House , CRIS-HS: 081155: Basil Biggs Farm Kitchen Pump and Well , CRIS-HS: 006927: Basil Biggs Farm Summer Kitchen , CRIS-HS: 006928: Basil Biggs Farm Wagon Shed