Greenmount, Pennsylvania
| Greenmount | |
| Green Mount | |
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Adams |
| Township | Cumberland |
| Center | Emmitsburg Road & Marsh Creek (39°45′29″N 77°16′44″W / 39.758°N 77.279°W) |
| - elevation | 531 ft (162 m) |
| - coordinates | 39°45′51″N 077°16′25″W / 39.76417°N 77.27361°WCoordinates: 39°45′51″N 077°16′25″W / 39.76417°N 77.27361°W |
| Post Office | 1864 April-1913 October 1 39°45′57″N 77°16′20″W / 39.76583°N 77.272339°W |
| Timezone | EST (UTC-5) |
| - summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 17325 |
| Area code | 717 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1176161 |
 Greenmount is in both Cumberland & Freedom townships
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 Location of Greenmount in Pennsylvania
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Greenmount is a populated place in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located southwest of the Gettysburg Battlefield, at Marsh Creek along the Emmitsburg Road (U.S. Route 15 Business), in Cumberland Township.
Neighboring communities are Fairfield (west), Gettysburg (north), Round Top (northeast), Barlow (east), Harney, Maryland (southeast), and Fairplay (south).
The 1814 Marsh Creek stone arch bridge on the Emmitsburg Road was replaced with a covered bridge before the battle and a subsequent 1921 concrete bridge. An XI Corps (Union Army) division passed through the covered bridge and used the adjacent muddy uphill road to the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, but the 2 other divisions detoured from the former crossroad south of Greenmount to the Taneytown Rd on the east using the Marsh Creek fording downstream of Greenmount ("Witherow" mill in 1821, "W Myers Grist & Saw Mill" in 1858, "Myer's Mill" c. 1863). Upstream of the community and west of the former post office is the 1894 Cunningham Bridge on the National Register of Historic Places (closed c. 1997 and planned for demolition). Greenmount hosted the Pennsylvania welcome ceremony for the 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy, which cooked lunch at McCurdy's Schoolhouse to the north.
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