1904 Cope map - Gettysburg Electric Railway

Tipton Station was a

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trolley stop of the

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for passenger access to Crawford's Glen to the north,

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(west), and Tipton Park (east). The station was established during the 1894 construction of the end of the trolley line and was near the Devil's Den trolley siding, south of the trolley's Warren Avenue crossing, and northeast of the Plum Run trolley bridge. An uphill trail led southwest to

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with its 1895 Observation Tower, and the "

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Path and Steps" were built to Devil's Den.

Tipton Park

Tipton Park was an 1894

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with a

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photographic studio and food stand on private Slaughter Pen land purchased in March 1892 by photographer William H. Tipton, an investor in the 1891 Gettysburg Electric Railway Company. As with Wheat-field Park to the west-northwest and Little Round Top Park (northeast), the park was a commemorative era visitor attraction for battlefield excursions such as the " Christian Endeavor Day" on July 25, 189

The park property was one of the first trolley right-of-ways acquire

by the United States Department of War, War Department after the 1896

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decision in the '' United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry. Co.'' case. The 2 tracts of were deeded on December 31, 1901, after a May 7 federal hearing, and the "eating house" was moved to the

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topographic saddle (operated by " Blind Davy" Weikert). The trolley tracks were removed in 1917 after federal funding was authorized. In 1934 a Gettysburg Parkitecture comfort station was built at the site () and a Plum Run pedestrian bridge was built to it from Devil's Den. In 2004, artifacts associated with Tipton Park were designated as historic district contributing structures (e.g., "Tipton Boundary Marker",:
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