18-598: The Round Top Museum was a Gettysburg Battlefield visitor attraction established by John H. Rosensteel in 1888 on the north foot of Little Round Top near the Round Top Station and northeast of the Wheatfield Road and Grand Central Avenue (now Sedgwick Av) intersection. The museum of Battle of Gettysburg artifacts was in Rosensteel's 1884 frame home and served as the " Round Top inn " restaurant/small hotel. On
36-616: A Camp Renaissance CCC worker committed a theft in 1936. [6] The Round Top Museum and the 1921 Rosensteel electric map museum on Cemetery Ridge were owned by the Gettysburg National Museum corporation until 1964, and the Round Top Museum became part of the Gettysburg National Military Park in 1971 which used the building as an environmental resource center until it was demolished c. 1982. Part of
54-593: A Round Top tract, the "tract of land belonging to Florence and Georgianna Cunningham" (different from the "Round Top Park property of [the] Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad") was transferred on September 18, 1905. In 1923, the funfair for the Adams County firemen's convention was held in the woods across from the Rosensteel pavilion with a "barker's alley" that included ten-pin stands, blanket and Kewpie doll wheels, knife and cane stands , and " Hit-the-Coon " games (2,000 cars were parked in 3 fields). The community
72-515: Is notable for two Battle of Gettysburg hospitals , the 1884 Round Top Station , and several battlefield commemorative era attractions such as Round Top Park and the Round Top Museum . The unincorporated community lies on an elevated area of the north-south Taneytown Road with three intersections: at Blacksmith Shop Road to the northeast, Wheatfield Road (west from "Roundtop"), and Sachs Road (east from "Sedgwick"). After an 1808 proposal,
90-548: The Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad built a steamtrain railroad to the Round Top Station , which operated until c. 1942 when the branch's abandonment application was filed. In 1894 on a different railway from the west, the Gettysburg Electric Railway began trolley operations to the station. Sedgwick Post Office After an 1884 refreshment stand opened in a "shanty at the base of Little Round Top",
108-576: The Taneytown Road was constructed southward from Gettysburg past the east of the Round Tops and by 1858, two crossroads had been built to the area, with three homes (north-to-south: "Geo Bishop", "E. Brickert", & "J. Group") that would become Round Top: Wheatfield Rd on the west across the north foot of Little Round Top to the Emmitsburg Road and Sachs Rd eastward across Rock Creek . In 1884,
126-577: The " H. J., H. and G. Railroad " to Round Top, Pennsylvania , for the Round-Top Railroad Company , the competing G&H RR purchased property from Lewis A. Bushman in April 1884 for excursions ( Little Round Top Park ), and their Round Top Branch 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
144-521: The 1884 house of postmaster Lewis A. Bushman was announced on July 20, 1886, as the location for the Sedgwick Post Office, which opened on August 2. In addition to serving the local area until Rural Free Delivery began, the post office was the transfer point for mail southward on the Taneytown Rd to Horner's Mill near Rock Creek and its subsequent 1890 Barlow post office. Bushman offered
162-533: The Sedgwick Post Office and Store Room tract for sale with a chopping mill , peach orchard, and warehouse on July 28, 1891; and S. V. Bushman had the merchant license in 1892 and sold the tract to James F. Rider in 1901. Rider, who near Round Top in 1888 had sold his father's tract of 13 acres (5.3 ha) with "lot of fruit and grapes", operated the Sedgwick store through 1915; and Charles C. Rider offered
180-452: The east side of the residence, construction began in March 1902 [2] for a "dancing pavilion" lit with acetelyne lamps that opened on May 25, 1902. A 1906 hop was held at the " Little Round Top Hotel ", [3] the "Round Top dance pavilion" was the site of a 1918 fire [4] and a 1925 stabbing, and picnics at Rosensteel Park were held as late as 1957. [5] The facility also included a store where
198-459: The museum's collection is in the GNMP's set of 43,000 American Civil War artifacts displayed in the 2008 Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center . [7] This Pennsylvania museum-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Round Top, Pennsylvania Round Top is a populated place in Adams County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania , near Little Round Top . It
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#1732855908977216-416: The property by July 4, 1900; Hudson leased the grove in 1902 from the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway , and later offered his owned tract with "Store Room" for sale in 1905. Cunningham Grove Cunningham Grove east of Little Round Top was used for picnics as early as July 26, 1879. After the 1904 eminent domain jury for United States v. Five Tracts of land was formed regarding Reynolds Grove and
234-409: The rear of the warehouse in 1894 on a different railway from the west, the Gettysburg Electric Railway 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
252-455: The southwest corner of the Wheatfield and Taneytown roads (#885), north of which is a 21st-century roadside produce stand (#855). Round Top Station Round Top Station was the southernmost station of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad and was located west of a blacksmith shop along the Taneytown Road that was in operation in 1880. Despite the 1882 survey of a rail route from
270-414: The tract with 8 room house for sale in 1928. The tract was purchased by the Round Top Museum owners in 1965 and was transferred along with the museum to the GNMP in 1971. Round Top School The one-room 1889 Round Top School was where the 1892 township citizens group formed to oppose the Gettysburg Electric Railway ( cf. United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry. Co. ). The school closed in 1948,
288-555: Was established by veterinarian Edward Hudson. Hudson's new stable at Round Top had burned down in 1897, and in January 1900, a tavern license was refused for Hudson's hotel. On April 25, 1900, the Hudson property with the 60 ft × 30 ft (18.3 m × 9.1 m) Hotel Sedgwick and stable was next to the school and offered for sale by the Sheriff; and after being unable to sell
306-402: Was sold in 1952, had renovations planned in 1972, and was deemed historically "not significant" in 2004. In addition to the 1884 Round Top Park and 1888 Round Top Museum (Little Round Top Hotel) with the adjacent Rosensteel Park , the community had two additional recreation groves: Dr. Hudson's grove "Dr. Hudson's grove" was a picnic area with a boxing arena and 1898 social hall that
324-563: Was the eponym for the Round Top hunting and economics clubs, and 20th-century retail businesses at Round Top included the 1904–1960 Epley Blacksmith Shop, the 1916 Round Top Fruit Farm, an early 20th-century automobile dealership (#940 Taneytown Road, site of a 1936 barn fire), the brick McGlaughlin general store (#770), and the 1950–1965 Shorty's Repair Shop on the Wheatfield Rd. A fast food concession built in 1962-3 remains on
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