Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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![The 1906 Beaux-Arts architecture (left) on the borough's Lincoln Square[1] was the First National Bank building used as a WWII spotter post for aircraft[2] and became the Adams County National Bank after the 1962 merger with the Littlestown State Bank and Trust Company.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DowntownGettysburgPA.jpg)
The 1906 Beaux-Arts architecture (left) on the borough's Lincoln Square was the First National Bank building used as a WWII spotter post for aircraft and became the Adams County National Bank after the 1962 merger with the Littlestown State Bank and Trust Company.
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 Location in Adams County and the state of Pennsylvania. |
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| Coordinates: 39°49′42″N 77°13′56″W / 39.82833°N 77.23222°WCoordinates: 39°49′42″N 77°13′56″W / 39.82833°N 77.23222°W | ||
| Country | United States | |
| State | Pennsylvania | |
| County | Adams | |
| Settled | 1780 | |
| Incorporated | 1806 | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Borough Council | |
| • Mayor | Theodore Streeter | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 1.7 sq mi (4.3 km2) | |
| • Land | 1.7 sq mi (4.3 km2) | |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) | |
| Elevation | 558 ft (170 m) | |
| Population (2010) | ||
| • Total | 7,620 | |
| • Density | 4,587/sq mi (1,770.9/km2) | |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) | |
| Zip code | 17325 | |
| Area code(s) | 717 Exchanges: 334,337,338,339. | |
| Website | www |
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Gettysburg is a borough and the county seat of Adams County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The Battle of Gettysburg (1863) and President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address are named for this town. The town hosts visitors to the Gettysburg National Battlefield in the Gettysburg National Military Park. As of the 2010 census, the borough had a population of 7,620 people.
Samuel (also reported as James) Gettys settled at the Shippensburg–Baltimore and Philadelphia–Pittsburgh crossroads with a 1761 tavern where soldiers and traders came to rest. To the southwest is the 1776 Dobbin House Tavern within the subsequent 1786 border established for the borough. After a "Strabane" township location between "Hunter's and Getty's towns" was planned as the county seat in 1790, in 1791 "Revd. Alexander Dobbin and David Moore Sr. were appointed trustees for the county of Adams to erect public buildings in…Gettysburg." The founder of the Studebaker Corporation was born in 1833 in Gettysburg.
In 1858 the Gettysburg Railroad completed construction of a railroad line from Gettysburg to Hanover. The Gettysburg Railroad Station opened in 1859. Passenger train service to the town ended in 1942. The station was restored in 2006. In 2011, Senator Robert Casey introduced S. 1897, which would include the railroad station within the boundary of Gettysburg National Military Park.
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