The Gettysburg Pennsylvania Blog

If you don’t have better plans, today and today only, Hampton Fire Company is hosting its annual car and craft show. This is the best car and craft show anywhere near Gettysburg, hands down. Local crafters showcase their handicrafts and they are very reasonably priced and if you like classic or antique cars then the [...]

On his way out of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee passed through Waynesboro, Pennsylvania and stopped long enough to occupy the town. Whether or not that has anything to do with Waynesboro’s strange happenings today is another story. Nevertheless, a couple of Waynesboro residents are starting a ghost tour similar to the ones to be found [...]

The East Berlin Area Community Center offers classes for local area residents (and visitors, if you care to spend your vacation learning something). Some upcoming classes that you might have an interest in include:

How To Make Money On The Internet - Offered October 21 or November 25
How To Build And Market First Website Locally - [...]

If you’re going to be in or around Gettysburg Pennsylvania this coming Labor day then I highly recommend a trip over to Williams Grove to participate in the Williams Grove Steam Engine Show. In fact, the show has already started and will run for nine full days.
Every year the steam engine show in Williams Grove [...]

Get your hog maw taste buds ready because there’s enough to go round. Colonial Day in East Berlin is just around the corner and hog maw platters are going for $5.50 a plate. MMMMM-mmmmm. We’re talking gooder than good.
Colonial Day will take place at the East Berlin Community Center in East Berlin on September 13, [...]

There’s a lot going on this weekend. My wife and I are heading over to Dover, Pa. to participate in Olde Tyme Days. It’s the 24th annual South Central Pennsylvania Historical Lifestyle and Power Society Olde Tyme Days. It starts tomorrow and runs through the 24th of August. Location: Canal and Mill Creek Roads in [...]

If you’re like I am then you like checking out the historical markers whenever you visit some place new. Well, Adams County Pennsylvania has a lot of historical markers. One historical marker is that you’ll find interesting, especially if you like old churches, is Rock Chapel.
Rock Chapel is one of the oldest churches in the [...]

The Land Conservancy of Adams County will hold its summer picnic tomorrow afternoon. The host will be Scozzaro’s Old Mill Inn in New Oxford. The event kicks off at 1 p.m. and runs until 4 p.m. Barbecue chicken is the main meal.
Also new, a volleyball tournament. Teams include LCAC Peppers and the Adams County Builders [...]

The State of Pennsylvania is selling four bridges located in York and Adams counties. They intend to replace the bridges and want to get rid of the existing bridges, which are outdated. Which bridges are they? Here’s the short list (oh, pardon me, it’s already a short list):

Bridge 193: 88 X 16 feet. Located on [...]

The word is out. If you some of the biggest and tastiest apples ever to come up out of the ground then Adams County is the place to go. The Adams County Nursery, to be exact.
The nursery, located in Aspers, Pennsylvania, is home to what is called October Blush, a new breed of grapefruit-size apples [...]