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Rear wings were added in 1895. A large clock tower reaches about 70 feet (21 m) above ground level. During the Battle of Gettysburg the building served as both a command post and as a hospital, for both Union and Confederate armies. [3] The Adams County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1974. [1] [3]
This is a list of former and current non-federal courthouses in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Each of the 67 counties in the Commonwealth has a city or borough designated as the county seat where the county government resides, including a county courthouse for the court of general jurisdiction, the Court of Common Pleas. Other courthouses are used by the three state-wide appellate courts ...
Gettysburg (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ t i z b ɜːr ɡ /; locally / ˈ ɡ ɛ t ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ / ⓘ) [4] is a borough in Pennsylvania and the county seat of Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. [5] As of the 2020 census, the borough had a population of 7,106 people.
Adams County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 103,852. [2] Its county seat is Gettysburg. [3] The county was created on January 22, 1800, from part of York County, and was named for the second President of the United States, John Adams.
Location of Adams County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Adams County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Gettysburg Battlefield observation decks may refer to the towers which are historic district contributing structures or other buildings used as observation platforms in the postbellum battlefield eras and during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg: Adams County Courthouse (Pennsylvania), with cupola used by the Army of Northern Virginia during the battle
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On the night of May 5–6, 1863, after the Army of the Potomac commanded by Major General Joseph Hooker had been defeated at the Battle of Chancellorsville (April 30, 1863 to May 6, 1863), in Spotsylvania County, Virginia by the General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, Hooker withdrew his forces to positions north of the Rappahannock River, mainly in the vicinity of Falmouth, Virginia.