The Lee-Meade Inn was a

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army site on the

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in the area of Hood's Assault. The facility was south of Rose Run on the "light grade" north of the South Confederate Avenue crest. The Inn had of frontage on the

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, cabins in the rear, and an adjacent service station. Constructed during the development era (by 1931) across from the Battlefield Airport site and subsequently operated by a 1937 corporation,

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leased the Inn for students of the 1942 Civilian Pilot Training program in the Gettysburg School of Aeronautics. From 1943-1945, the Army's War Mapping Unit used the Inn to produce maps for the

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{{Reflist Closed installations of the United States Army Taverns in Pennsylvania