The Gettysburg Pennsylvania Blog

The big news in Gettysburg this year is the new Gettysburg National Military Park Visitor Center and Museum. Opened in April this year at a cost of $103 million, the center is nearing the 1 million visitor mark, and that includes President and Laura Bush who visited last weekend.
While the rest of the country is [...]

When French painter Paul Philippoteaux and his team of 20 assistants created the cyclorama that depicts Pickett’s Charge and the Battle of Gettysburg back in the 1880s, I’m betting they didn’t know that at one time it would need restoration work and that it cost $16 million to do it. But that is the case.
The [...]

If you are planning to visit the new Taj Mahal of visitor centers, the Gettysburg Battlefield Visitor Center, then you’d better do it before October. The center administrators are planning to start charging an admission fee starting that month.
The Gettysburg Foundation is the organization that suggested charging $7.50 admission to participate in some of the [...]

Adams County Pennsylvania is called Apple Country for a reason. If you want tasty, beautiful apples then this is the place to go. Biglerville, a small town just to the north of Gettysburg about seven miles, is the home of the National Apple Museum. Arendtsville, three miles west of Biglerville, plays host to the annual [...]

Gettysburg was in the national news recently.
Renovations are good, but there is a tendency to look at the past nostlgically while portraying forward-looking innovations as bad. But reality is reality. People don’t want to walk around and look at some staid exhibit. Past generations may have been awed by this, as was the World [...]

Travel - Eat - Sleep had a great blog post recently on things to do in Baltimore, Maryland. Of course, Baltimore is just a couple of hour drive from Gettysburg and so it makes a great day trip. I’ve talked about day trips to Baltimore before. But I like these suggestions:

Lexington Market - Truly a [...]

One of the most fascinating tours in the Gettysburg area is The Lincoln Train Museum. Located on Steinwehr Avenue in Gettysburg Pennsylvania, the museum features thousands of toy train models and you can ride the train taking the same route that President Abraham Lincoln took to visit Gettysburg in order to deliver his famous Gettysburg [...]

Just up the road a piece is the historic small town of Hanover, Pa., known for its snack foods and shoes. But few people are aware that Hanover is also the home of its own little fire museum.
The Hanover Fire Museum was started in 1980 after two of the borough’s fire stations were shut [...]

One of the best tours that you’ll find in Gettysburg Pennsylvania is the Hall of Presidents Museum. This wax museum walks you through U.S. history in such a way that you’ll never forget. The presidents are used in light and sound to tell a story of America from the perspective of the chief executive. And [...]