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Pennsylvania National Parks
National parks, monuments, natural reserves, historic sites of Pennsylvania. Pages with photos are indicated with (pictures).
Allegheny Portage Railroad (pictures)
Gallitzin
Appalachian
Lake Superior
Delaware & Lehigh
Easton
Delaware Water Gap (pictures)
Bushkill
Edgar Allan Poe (pictures)
Philadelphia
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Fort Necessity
Farmington
Friendship Hill
Point Marion
Gettysburg National Military (pictures)
Gettysburg
Gettysburg
Gettysburg
Gloria Dei Church (pictures)
Philadelphia
Hopewell Furnace (pictures)
Elverson
Independence
Philadelphia
Johnstown Flood (pictures)
South Fork
New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve
Philadelphia
Steamtown
Scranton
Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Philadelphia
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Gettysburg National Military Park pictures
Gettysburg, PA
Located 50 miles northwest of Baltimore, the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was the site of the largest Civil War battle ever waged in the Western Hemisphere. The Battle of Gettysburg opened on July 1, 1863 and closed two days later with the climactic "Pickett's Charge". It resulted in a Union victory for the Army of the Potomac and successfully turned back the second invasion of the North by General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Over 51,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or captured making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. It was also a major turning point in the war. Historians have referred to the Battle of Gettysburg as the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy." It was the last major effort by Lee to take the fighting out of Virginia and into northern states. The Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg contains more than 7,000 interments including over 3,500 from the Civil War. It was here that President Abraham Lincoln delivered his immortal Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863.
Post-battle preservation efforts saved small portions of the battlefield as a memorial to the Union victory. On February 11, 1895, congressional legislation was signed to establish Gettysburg National Military Park as a memorial dedicated to the armies that fought that great three day battle. Gettysburg National Military Park incorporates nearly 6,000 acres, with 26 miles of park roads and over 1,400 monuments, markers, and memorials.
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