Place:Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States

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Gettysburg is a borough in and the county seat of Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States, and the eponym for the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg and President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The town hosts visitors to the Gettysburg National Battlefield in the Gettysburg National Military Park and has three institutions of higher learning: Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg College, and Harrisburg Area Community College.

Many roads radiate from Gettysburg, providing hub-like access to Washington, D.C. , Baltimore , Harrisburg , Carlisle , Frederick and Hagerstown, Maryland and Hanover, Pennsylvania . York is east on the Lincoln Highway (U.S. Route 30) and Chambersburg is west on the Lincoln Highway (U.S. Route 30), the first transcontinental U.S. highway. Today the borough is a 2 hour drive from Philadelphia and a 3 hour drive from Pittsburgh via the Pennsylvania Turnpike and U.S. Route 15. Gettysburg Regional Airport, a small general aviation airport, is located west of Gettysburg.

History

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Samuel Gettys settled on the Shippensburg – Baltimore and Philadelphia – Pittsburgh cross roads with a 1761 tavern where soldiers and traders came to rest, and to the southwest is the 1776 Dobbin House Tavern within the subsequent 1786 border established for the borough. After a " township location between "Hunter's and towns" was planned as the county seat in 1790, in 1791 "Revd. Alexander Dobbin and David Moore, senior, were appointed trustees for the county of Adams [to erect] public buildings in…Gettysburg". The founder of the Studebaker Corporation was born 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.

By 1860, the borough "had ~450 buildings [which] housed carriage manufacturing, shoemakers, and tanneries".

In June 2009, the Adams County Transit Authority implemented local transportation service to the borough operating under the name Freedom Transit In June 2011, a Rabbit Transit commuter bus to Harrisburg began service.

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