Dobbin House in Gettysburg turns 250

The oldest building in Gettysburg is the Dobbin House. It was built by Reverend Alexander Dobbin in 1776. He consecrated it ...

In 1776, a Gettysburg minister built his stone home; 200 years later a young couple saved it from demolition, and today the city's oldest building is marking its 250th bi…

Gettysburg's oldest surviving building, the 1776 Dobbin House, marked its 250th anniversary on Wednesday, 26 August 2026, ...
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Gettysburg Film Festival honoring United Airlines Flight 93

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The Gettysburg Film Festival focuses on American history. Instead of a full festival this fall, a ...

National Park Service celebrates 110th birthday: Gettysburg National Military Park is a 'piece of an American puzzle'

The National Park Service celebrated its 110th birthday on Tuesday as guests came in to visit the memorials and tour the ...

10,033 tiny clay cats reenact the Civil War at a Gettysburg museum

A stone’s throw from the hallowed ground of the Gettysburg Battlefiel d, where over 51,000 soldiers died over three days, ...

Rare letters from kin of missing soldiers are donated to Gettysburg museum

A Virginian asked a Gettysburg doctor to help find the body of his brother, killed in the Civil War battle there. A Georgia ...

USS Gettysburg sailors visiting ship’s namesake this week

Nine sailors from the USS Gettysburg are spending time in the ship’s namesake borough this week to participate in community ...

In 1950, US former president Eisenhower bought a 189-acre Gettysburg farm for retirement. 17 years later, he gave the property to the nation

Eisenhower's relationship with Gettysburg began in the spring of 1915, when he was still a cadet at the US Military Academy ...
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Gettysburg tells the story of more than a battle − the military park shows what national ‘reconciliation’ looked like for decades after the Civil War

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to dedicate a cemetery at the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Four months before, about 50,000 soldiers ...