Round Top Station was the southernmost

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of the

Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad The Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad (G. & H. R. R.) was a railway line of Pennsylvania from Hunter's Run southward to Gettysburg in the 19th century. The north junction was with the South Mountain RR, and a crossing with the Hanover Juncti ...

and was located west of a blacksmith shop along the

Taneytown Road Pennsylvania Route 134 (PA 134), also called Taneytown Road ( ), is a north–south, two-lane state highway in Adams County, Pennsylvania, Adams County, Pennsylvania. It runs from the Maryland border at the Mason–Dixon line in Mount Joy Tow ...

that was in operation in 1880.

History

Despite the 1882 survey of a rail route from the " H. J., H. and G. Railroad" to

Round Top, Pennsylvania Round Top is a populated place in Adams County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, near Little Round Top. It is notable for two Battle of Gettysburg hospitals, the 1884 Round Top Station, and several battlefield commemorative era attractions su ...

, 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 The Round Top Branch was an extension of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad from the Gettysburg borough across the Gettysburg Battlefield to Round Top, Pennsylvania. The branch ran southward from the terminus of the railroad's main line (it ...

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 the rear of the warehouse in 1894 on a different railway from the west, the

Gettysburg Electric Railway The Gettysburg Electric Railway was a borough trolley that provided summer access1991 Gettysburg Times to Gettysburg Battlefield visitor attractions such as military engagement areas, monuments, postbellum camps, and recreation areas (e.g., ...

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 the

Gettysburg National Military Park The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the park is managed by the National Park Service. The GNMP propert ...

(GNMP), which is adjacent to the private tracts along the Taneytown Road; and between 1904 and 1916 a siding was created at the station. The station operated until when the branch's abandonment application was filed.

References

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Archive: {{Reflist , group=G , refs= {{cite news , date=July 28, 1891 , title=Private Sale , url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lf8yAAAAIBAJ&pg=3809,7550755&dq=sedgwick-post-office&hl=en , accessdate=2011-02-23 {{cite news , date=April 30, 1952 , title=Story of Old Trolley Line Told to Club , url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s9wlAAAAIBAJ&pg=3080,46849&dq=rosensteel+pavilion+dancing+gettysburg&hl=en , access-date=2011-02-26 NOTE: North of the Round Top station on the

was the Hancock Station near the battlefield's Vermont Memorial on Grand Central Avenue ("Hancock" Av by 1886

/ref> Demolished railway stations in the United States Railway stations in Pennsylvania Railway stations in the United States opened in 1883 1883 establishments in Pennsylvania