Gettysburg Facts

Though Gettysburg is known as a Civil War Battle site and location of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the town was the site of Sanuel Gettys' farmstead. After the Revolutionary War, James Gettys, Samuel's son, purchased a 116 acre tract from his father's farmstead. By 1786 he had laid out 210 lots around the Square, which still remains as the center of the town.
Thus Gettysburg was born.

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