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140 Places Every Guide Should Know

The following list, certainly not a definitive one, was compiled by several guides during long rides back and forth to grad school. It is in no way the "official policy" of the N.P.S. or the A.L.B.G., nor is it necessarily all knowledge expected of prospective new guides. It is felt that in addition to a good, overall knowledge of the battle, a firm knowledge of the various features and sites related to the area and its pre and post-battle history was necessary information for a newly-licensed guide to begin to acquire.

Timber's Farm "The Devil's Kitchen" "Slaughter Pen" The actual "Devil's Den"
Neill Avenue Hampton Battery Rock Fuller Marker Willard's Death site
Irsch Advance Marker Jones Artillery Avenue 1st Shot Marker Hazlett Inscription
McAllister Mill Site Menchey's Spring Wagon Hotel Coster Avenue
"Trough" Rock Forney Farm Site Fahnestock Building Henry Culp House
Dan Shaffer Farm George House South Cavalry Field 1st Corps Barricade site
Bushman Hill Rock where
Farnsworth/Kilpatrick
argued on July 3rd.
Herbst Woods Ohio Flank Markers, Cemetery Hill
Ginny Wade's Three "Houses"

25th Anniversary Memorial

50th Anniversary Memorial

Warfield Ridge
Warfield House Hunt's HQ Marker Tipton Inscription John Burn's
House site
George Nixon's Grave Bigelow's "Gate" Brown's "Gate" Dinosaur Footprints
Springs Hotel Site "A.L. Coble" Rock "D.A." Rock Greene's Traverse
Palmer Marker

Heth Wounding Tree

Gibbon Tree

54th NY Skirmish Line
Iron Brigade Position, Culp's Hill Vincent Inscription 40th NY Inscription Original "Valley of Death"
Parrott Rifle #1 (CP) Belmont Schoolhouse Rock that
Ellis and Cromwell's
bodies were placed
following death.
McPherson's Woods
32nd Mass Aide Station Site where Colonel Avery fell Ginny Wade's three graves Armistead's Grave site
Heagy Farm site Alms House site Old Adams Co. Prison Sickles' Wounding Site
J. Weikert Farm Granite Schoolhouse Site Stock House Sweeney House
Schimmelfennig's Shed site Howe Avenue Eagle Hotel site Chaplain Howell Shot marker
Williams Avenue Power's Hill Ordnance Rifle #233 Berdan Avenue
Triangular Field Pardee Field Sachs' Bridge Emanuel Pitzer Farm
Sandoe's Death site Penelope Ann

Only '63 Tree left in the
National Cemetery

Location of
the only 6 Rifled
Napoleons made.
Houck's Ridge Advanced Marker 1st Md CS Ewell's HQ Marker Newton's HQ Marker
Confederates in Natl. Cem Lt. Col. Fowler Killed Seminary Buildings '63 College Buildings '63
Wentz House Rogers House Site George Sandoe's Grave Raffensberger's Hill
"The Killing Swale" Spangler's Meadow Capture site 150th Pa Flag Chamberlain Avenue site
Meade Avenue site Devil's Slipper Commonwealth of PA Parrotts State of Connecticut James Rifles
Only statue of regimental cmdr on the field Semmes' Wounding site "CORA" Codori Spring
Location of only original 6 Pdr on field "Brockenbrough's" Rock Quarry 5th Ohio's Skirmish Line "HQ" "P. Noel" carving
McGilvery Avenue Red Patch Herman Haupt's Gettysburg Home Josiah Benner's Springhouse
Col. Collis's grave "Sickles' Act" plaque John Page Nicholson marker William Miller's Grave
Where Amos Hummiston died. 123rd NY Skirmish Marker Slocum's HQ marker Sgt. Major Stockton's rock
Western Maryland Railroad Station Vincent wounding inscription. "Second" Spangler's Spring Z. Taney Farm site.
Army of Potomac Right Flank Marker Christ Lutheran Church German Reformed Church W. Culp's Grave
Burial plot of museum remains. 26th Pa. Emergency "Action" Marker Blocher's Knoll  "The Big Rocks"
Battle Dead plot in Evergreen

* Exact location of speaker's platform on November 19.
* Twelve buildings that still have Civil War artillery shells in them.
* Site of the original advance marker of the 27th Connecticut.
* Pump site where Gen. Early wrote demands on Gettysburg, June 26.
* Oldest existing Gettysburg church still used as a church.
* Gen. Crawford's HQ site night of July 2.
* Homes of three free Black families on field at time of the battle.
* What was first monument on the field with a clearly visible Confederate Flag on it?
* Last Civil War/Gettysburg veteran to serve as park superintendent.

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