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began trolley operations The railroad-owned property along the north side of Wheatfield Rd extended eastward from the railway and had frontage along the Taneytown Rd at the corner, site of the 1895 Ollie Rouzer blacksmith shop. The north-south steamtrain railbed at Round Top became the east edge of
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Lewis A. Bushman has contracted with Joseph J. Smith for the erection of a warehouse and dwelling at the terminus of the branch, on the Taneytown road. The railroad company has purchased a tract of 15 acres from Mr. Bushman between the Taneytown road and Little Round-Top for excursion
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the "Round-Top Railroad Company," to build a line from Gettysburg… capital stock, $ 25,000, and A. W. Eichelberger President. The directors are Wm. Grumbine, Reuben Young, Peter Flickinger, B. M. Wirt, R. A. Eichelberger, H. A. Young,
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was instead being constructed in May 1884. The station warehouse was completed June 21, 1884 (burned February 22/23, 1889; rebuilt by August 1891); and to the rear of the warehouse in 1894 on a different railway from the west, the
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company, of a route for the proposed extension of their track to Round Top. Two lines are thought of -- one running east, the other west of the town.
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D. S. Fuhrman…on the Gilbert property…will sell tickets covering fifteen baths for one dollar.
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near the battlefield's Vermont Memorial on Grand Central Avenue ("Hancock" Av by 1886).
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Joseph S. Gitt, of New Oxford, is making a survey for the
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Gettysburg Compiler; Adams County Railroads: Concluded
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when the branch's abandonment application was filed.
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Railway stations in the United States opened in 1883
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and was located west of a blacksmith shop along the
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Round Top Branch
Gettysburg Electric Railway
train station
Wheatfield Road
Round Top
Coordinates
39°47′40″N 77°13′57″W / 39.79442°N 77.232395°W / 39.79442; -77.232395
station
Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad
Taneytown Road
H. J., H. and G. Railroad
Round Top, Pennsylvania
Round-Top Railroad Company
Little Round Top Park
Round Top Branch
Gettysburg Electric Railway
Gettysburg National Military Park
"Tour Landis Valley Museum"
the original
"Baltimore and Harrisburg Railroad"
Gettysburg Railroad
sic
David Wills
"The New Railroad: Its Pictures, Round-Top Branch, &c"
"Gettysburg Compiler - Google News Archive Search"
"Local Flashes, Ox Roast on the Fourth, & Excursions"
"Search results"
"The Star and Sentinel - Google News Archive Search"
Gettysburg National Park Commission

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