The Gettysburg Pennsylvania Blog

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 [...]

Are you going to be in Gettysburg, or anywhere near the vicinity of York County Pennsylvania the weekend of August 23-24? If so then you’ll want to pay a visit to YorkFest, which is York city’s arts and music festival. They have it every year.
The event is held along the Codorus River in York. It’s [...]

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 They intend to replace the bridges and want to get rid of the existing bridges, which are outdated.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 [...]

Two of Gettysburg’s nearest cities with a population more than 50,000 are in Maryland. Frederick, Maryland is the nearest with more than 50,000 and Baltimore, Maryland is the nearest city with more than 200,000 residents. The nearest city with more than 1,000,000 residents is Philadelphia and it’s 144 miles.
Nearby small towns include Biglerville, just seven [...]

I’ve lived in Adams County, Pennsylvania now for over two years. Prior to that my wife lived in York County for two years while I was deployed to Iraq with my National Guard officer. I visited when I could.
In the four years that we’ve lived in Pennsylvania, I’ve noticed that the attitude of the people [...]

I don’t know if that’s true or not. I don’t even know if there is a horseshoe capital of the world. But I read in this news article that Pennsylvania had the highest number of entrants into the world championship of a horseshoe pitching contest. The event was held at the York Expo Center, which [...]

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation recently installed 73 “wayfinding” signs along the Pennsylvania Civil War trail. The trail runs through York and Adams counties, Cumberland County, Dauphin County, Franklin and Lancaster counties.
If you see one of these signs you’ll know that you are following the civil war trail, the path of the civil war [...]