Happy Fourth of July

[cornerofmadness]

And Happy Birthday to katimac

We're just hanging around the house, throwing darts and I'm writing. We'll grill out later.

To celebrate finally have my Gettysburg pics



Farnsworth House (basically the edge of town back then and this is where the sharpshooter was who killed Jennie Wade. Dozens of bodies were stacked in both attic and basement


Military cemetery (I think that's the NY monument)


close up of the monument


This was the cemetery caretaker's house, they were one of the ones who rescued the boy from the orphanage. Ghostly lights are seen here (I had a bunch of orbs but I don't put much stock in those)


The black roofed building is the orphanage where the kids were abused, the other is a B&B


This is the crawl space where Rosa chained up kids.(that's my brother)


shackles in the style she used on the kids, also in the basement


Jennie Wade's actual house. Has a museum of haunted artifacts but we didn't get to it.


An old school house turned hotel but it's sort of far out, a bit out of comfortable walking distance



battlefield + monument


Dobbin House Tavern, loved it


This was erected by Louisiana, it's the one I wanted to find again and get a better pic of but couldn't find it again

On Little Round Top, look down, the confederates were in the low land. It was like a fish in a barrel


On Little Round Top

Standing inside a monument on Little Round Top

The Pennsylvania monument, you can walk up inside it to the top. Brother did. SiL and I stayed in the air conditioned car

A reconstruction of the house of a freed African family, wish they had the homes on the property open but they don't. This is less than 10 miles from the Maryland border. A chancy place to put down roots

Devil's Den, we went to this site to investigate it

Love this shot of Devil's Den

This is a terrible pic of me and the LEAST terrible of the ones of me. God

See the two diamond shapes and then the round hole? it's a cannon ball hole


Jennie Wade's grave

Mr. G's ice cream, it was there during the war (I forget the family name) and a witness tree next to it

Rupp House, it wasn't there during the battle but the Rupp home was and their tannery. It got blasted to crap so he built this but the whole family more or less died of dysentery before taking residence (I know it's so hard to think of whole families dying of diarrhea but it was like the #1 killer back then) and it was bought almost immediately by the historical society in the late 1880s and has been theirs ever since which is weird to me.

The house Jennie Wade was shot and killed inside of as she baked bread. It was her sister Georgia's.

The bullet hole in the door is the one that killed her

The bullets in the Farnsworth House (the white areas in the brick) and the window where the sharpshooter was in the attic

Fireworks over the orphanage

Comments

[spikedluv]

Great photos! I love looking at the old buildings and the monuments.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. I love old buildings so much you'd think I was an architect last life