Beaverdam Creek is a Pennsylvania stream near Hunterstown, northeast of

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Gettysburg (; non-locally ) is a borough and the county seat of Adams County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The Battle of Gettysburg (1863) and President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address are named for this town. Gettysburg is home to th ...

. The creek's intersection with the road leading to the

Gettysburg Railroad The Gettysburg Railroad was a railway line in Pennsylvania that operated from 1858 to 1870 over the 17-mile (27 km) main line from the terminus in Gettysburg to the 1849 Hanover Junction. After becoming the Susquehanna, Gettysburg & Poto ...

's Granite station was the site of the

Battle of Hunterstown The Battle of Hunterstown was an American Civil War skirmish at Beaverdam Creek near Hunterstown, Pennsylvania, on July 2, 1863, in which Wade Hampton's Confederate cavalry withdrew after engaging George Armstrong Custer's and Elon Farnsworth' ...

on July 2, 1863.

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Battlefields of the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War Rivers of Adams County, Pennsylvania Tributaries of the Susquehanna River Rivers of Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-river-stub