GO and Build a Better World! - Historic Site LbNA #71448
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Add Location| Owner: | N/A |
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| Plant date: | Jun 3, 2017 |
| Location: | Gettysburg National Military Park |
| City: | Gettysburg |
| County: | Adams |
| State: | Pennsylvania |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | GOAdamsKids
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| Found by: | orangeblssm1976 |
| Last found: | Jul 26, 2017 |
| Status: | F |
| Last edited: | May 30, 2017 |
This letterbox is part of the GO and Build a Better World! program in Adams County. It will be available from June 3, 2017 to July 29, 2017. Further details about the program may be found at www.goadams.org.
The GO and Build a Better World! program requires you to search for up to 15 “landmarks” – wooden posts with engraved plates on them, instead of a traditional letterbox and stamp. Please use a colored pencil or crayon to carefully rub the impression onto your GO and Build a Better World! rubbing sheet, available for free at any Adams County Library.
This letterbox is located at Gettysburg National Military Park and may be accessed from the National Cemetery parking area. GO Adams! level of difficulty = Easy
- From the Maryland Monument, walk in a northerly fashion up the sidewalk that leads to the entrance of the National Cemetery. (If you are facing the front of the monument, this sidewalk is to the left).
- Carefully cross Taneytown Road at the top of the hill; use the designated crosswalk and enter through the main gates of the National Cemetery.
- Proceed to the first wayside marker you see. How many graves are located in this cemetery? How many fell during the Civil War?
- From the wayside panel walk straight ahead, past the brick structure on your left and the monument to your right, and stop when you arrive at the tree straight ahead.
- Turn around; the brick structure on your right is called a rostrum—it is a speaker’s platform, built in 1879—the monument to your left is the Lincoln Address Memorial—the only monument on the field dedicated to a speech.
- Return to the sidewalk, take a right and continue along the sidewalk, walking in an easterly/northeasterly fashion. You will see small black plaques with stanzas from a poem inscribed upon them. The bottom line of the second plaque is also the same as the name of the poem.
- Continue walking along the sidewalk and you will soon pass the tall Soldiers’ National Monument on your left; this monument was dedicated in 1869.
- The small monument behind the Soldiers’ National Monument is the Kentucky State Memorial; notice the small bronze plaque states that Lincoln stood where the statue is to deliver the Gettysburg Address. This is not true. To discover where Lincoln stood and to locate your rubbing, please continue walking along the sidewalk to the next wayside panel (it will be on your right).
- The wayside you seek is entitled “The Gettysburg Address.” Where did Lincoln actually stand to deliver his famous speech?
- Return to your vehicle by retracing your steps back to the parking area.
Hike length: 0.5 miles
The GO and Build a Better World! program requires you to search for up to 15 “landmarks” – wooden posts with engraved plates on them, instead of a traditional letterbox and stamp. Please use a colored pencil or crayon to carefully rub the impression onto your GO and Build a Better World! rubbing sheet, available for free at any Adams County Library.
This letterbox is located at Gettysburg National Military Park and may be accessed from the National Cemetery parking area. GO Adams! level of difficulty = Easy
- From the Maryland Monument, walk in a northerly fashion up the sidewalk that leads to the entrance of the National Cemetery. (If you are facing the front of the monument, this sidewalk is to the left).
- Carefully cross Taneytown Road at the top of the hill; use the designated crosswalk and enter through the main gates of the National Cemetery.
- Proceed to the first wayside marker you see. How many graves are located in this cemetery? How many fell during the Civil War?
- From the wayside panel walk straight ahead, past the brick structure on your left and the monument to your right, and stop when you arrive at the tree straight ahead.
- Turn around; the brick structure on your right is called a rostrum—it is a speaker’s platform, built in 1879—the monument to your left is the Lincoln Address Memorial—the only monument on the field dedicated to a speech.
- Return to the sidewalk, take a right and continue along the sidewalk, walking in an easterly/northeasterly fashion. You will see small black plaques with stanzas from a poem inscribed upon them. The bottom line of the second plaque is also the same as the name of the poem.
- Continue walking along the sidewalk and you will soon pass the tall Soldiers’ National Monument on your left; this monument was dedicated in 1869.
- The small monument behind the Soldiers’ National Monument is the Kentucky State Memorial; notice the small bronze plaque states that Lincoln stood where the statue is to deliver the Gettysburg Address. This is not true. To discover where Lincoln stood and to locate your rubbing, please continue walking along the sidewalk to the next wayside panel (it will be on your right).
- The wayside you seek is entitled “The Gettysburg Address.” Where did Lincoln actually stand to deliver his famous speech?
- Return to your vehicle by retracing your steps back to the parking area.
Hike length: 0.5 miles