Round Top Station
| Round Top Station | |
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 By 1916, Round Top Station had a siding of the Round Top Branch that used the Gettysburg Electric Railway | |
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| General information | |
| Type | train station |
| Location | Wheatfield Road |
| Town or city | Round Top |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 39°47′40″N 77°13′57″W / 39.79442°N 77.232395°W |
| Opened | 1884 |
Round Top Station was the southernmost station of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad and was located west of a blacksmith shop along the Taneytown Road that was in operation in 1880.[1]
History
[edit]Despite the 1882 survey of a rail route from the "H. J., H. and G. Railroad" to Round Top, Pennsylvania,[G 1] for the Round-Top Railroad Company,[2] the competing G&H RR purchased property from Lewis A. Bushman in April 1884 for excursions[3] (Little Round Top Park), and their Round Top Branch was instead being constructed in May 1884.[4] The station warehouse was completed June 21, 1884[5] (burned February 22/23, 1889;[6] rebuilt by August 1891);[G 2] and to the rear of the warehouse[7] in 1894 on a different railway from the west, the Gettysburg Electric Railway began trolley operations[G 3] The railroad-owned property along the north side of Wheatfield Rd extended eastward from the railway and had frontage along the Taneytown Rd at the corner,[8] site of the 1895 Ollie Rouzer blacksmith shop.[9] The north-south steamtrain railbed at Round Top became the east edge of the Gettysburg National Military Park (GNMP), which is adjacent to the private tracts along the Taneytown Road; and between 1904 and 1916 a siding was created at the station. The station operated until c. 1942 when the branch's abandonment application was filed.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Tour Landis Valley Museum". Landisvalleymuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
- ^ Gitt, Joseph S (February 9, 1884). "Baltimore and Harrisburg Railroad" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler; Adams County Railroads: Concluded (published February 19, 1884). Retrieved 2011-07-05.
In August, 1882, I made surveys [for] the purpose of extending the Gettysburg Railroad [sic] to Round-Top for excursion purposes [by] the "Round-Top Railroad Company," to build a line from Gettysburg… capital stock, $25,000, and A. W. Eichelberger President. The directors are Wm. Grumbine, Reuben Young, Peter Flickinger, B. M. Wirt, R. A. Eichelberger, H. A. Young, David Wills, H. D. Scott.
- ^ "The New Railroad: Its Pictures, Round-Top Branch, &c" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler. April 29, 1884. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
Lewis A. Bushman has contracted with Joseph J. Smith for the erection of a warehouse and dwelling at the terminus of the branch, on the Taneytown road. The railroad company has purchased a tract of 15 acres from Mr. Bushman between the Taneytown road and Little Round-Top for excursion purposes.
- ^ "Gettysburg Compiler - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ "Local Flashes, Ox Roast on the Fourth, & Excursions" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler. June 24, 1884. p. 3. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
D. S. Fuhrman…on the Gilbert property…will sell tickets covering fifteen baths for one dollar.
- ^ "Search results". www.google.com. [better source needed]
- ^ "The Star and Sentinel - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ Map of the Battle Field of Gettysburg (Map). Cartography by Gettysburg National Park Commission: Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A. New York: Julius Bien & Co. Lith. 1904.
{{cite map}}: External link in|cartography= - ^ "Gettysburg Times - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ "Gettysburg Times - Google News Archive Search".
- G. "Gettysburg Times Archives". Gettysburg Times. Times and News Publishing Company. Retrieved 2010-02-20. References at the Google News Archive:
- ^ "Out of the Past: Seventy-Five Years Ago". June 17, 1957. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
Joseph S. Gitt, of New Oxford, is making a survey for the H. J., H. and G. Railroad company, of a route for the proposed extension of their track to Round Top. Two lines are thought of -- one running east, the other west of the town.
- ^ "Private Sale". July 28, 1891. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
- ^ "Story of Old Trolley Line Told to Club". April 30, 1952. Retrieved 2011-02-26. NOTE: North of the Round Top station on the Round Top Branch was the Hancock Station near the battlefield's Vermont Memorial on Grand Central Avenue ("Hancock" Av by 1886).[1]