Tag: Things to Do and See in Gettysburg
Gettysburg By Night: Experiencing the Town After Sunset
September 1, 2022Gettysburg is a well-known historical destination for travelers and tourists from all over the world. And there are certainly a great many things to see and experience in Gettysburg during the day, but that doesn’t mean that the town stops being a first-class destination when the sun sets! There’s plenty to do in this Gettysburg by night! Below are just some of the many great activities available to visitors after dark.
What are the Must-See Sights of the Gettysburg Battlefield?
June 23, 2022The Gettysburg Battlefield is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Pennsylvania. For three days in 1863, Union and Confederate forces met here on the hills, fields, and wooded landscape of central Pennsylvania in what would become the most famous battle of the American Civil War.
The 6,000-acre battlefield has since been preserved as a tribute to those who fought that day and boasts more than 1,300 monuments, markers, and memorials to tell their story. The modern battlefield and much of the nearby town still look very much like they did in 1863. Today the area remains a living monument to the struggle and strife of our American Civil War.
Christmas at the Jennie Wade House
November 8, 2021Visit the Jennie Wade House to see how they decorated for the holidays in 1863. Music, decorations, and unique gifts. Open Friday, December 3rd & 10th; Saturday, December 4th, 11th & 18th; and Sunday, December 5th, 12th & 19th and daily December 26th-31st.
Ghostly Images Jennie Wade/Haunted Orphanage Combo Tour
February 24, 2021The Ghostly Images Jennie Wade/Haunted Orphanage Combo Tour is held Saturday nights beginning January 16th, 2021 (weather permitting) through Saturday, March 13th, 2021. Space is limited so get your tickets early. This tour takes you INSIDE both the Jennie Wade House and the Haunted Orphanage. Cost: $15 per person.
Daily operation begins on Friday, March 19th, 2021.
Monday, May 25–Virtual One Hundred Nights of Taps Gettysburg 2020
May 19, 2020Wendy Allen to 100 Nights of Taps Gettysburg 2020
Virtual One Hundred Nights of Taps, Gettysburg, 2020
Opening Ceremony, May 25, 7:00 p.m. on Facebook and YouTube
For the fourth year, the notes of “Taps” will be sounded in Gettysburg every evening this summer to honor of those who have served our nation. The program will take place virtually through internet live-streaming. In order to act in the best interest of public safety, Gettysburg National Military Park has informed The Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania that, until further notice, any on-site programming for “One Hundred Nights of Taps, Gettysburg, 2020” within Soldiers’ National Cemetery is temporarily suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. If and when the Fellowship receives an “all-clear” for on-site programming, we will again meet, outdoors, at the base of the beautiful Soldiers’ National Monument in Gettysburg National Military Park to resume the ceremony as it was intended to be.
The Lincoln Fellowship, in partnership with Taps for Veterans and Gettysburg National Military Park, will stream the virtual program at 7 p.m. every evening from Memorial Day (May 25) through Labor Day (September 7) through Facebook and YouTube. We welcome any and all members of the public to join us online at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1472479932776324/
and on our One Hundred Nights of Taps, Gettysburg, 2020 YouTube channel.
Jennie Wade-Orphan Combo Tour
February 20, 2015Ghostly Images of Gettysburg is proud to invite you to tour the buildings investigated by the Popular Network Shows “GHOST HUNTERS”, “GHOST LAB”, “GHOST ADVENTURES”, “HAUNTED HISTORY” AND “MOST HAUNTED LIVE”. A special tour taking you INSIDE The Jennie Wade House and The Haunted Orphanage will be offered SATURDAY NIGHTS January 17th through February 28th at 7 PM (weather permitting). Space is limited. Make ticket arrangements by contacting Gettysburg Battlefield Tours, 778 Baltimore Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325, (717) 334-6296 option #2 (9 AM – 3:30 PM) Cost: $15 (ages 8 and older). Any remaining tickets will be sold at Ghostly Images, 777 Baltimore Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325, (717) 334-1156 prior to tour. Tour has been cancelled for Saturday, February 21st. The last Combo Tour will be on Saturday, February 28th, 2015.
The George Spangler Farm Civil War Hospital Site
July 9, 2014Friday, June 06, 2014 to Sunday, August 10, 2014
Time: 10:00am-2:00pm
Educational Event
The George Spangler Farm Civil War Hospital Site is one of the most intact Civil War field hospitals used during the battle of Gettysburg. During and after the battle, the Spangler family’s homestead was occupied by the Union army’s Eleventh Corps who used the buildings and fields as a hospital for some 1,900 wounded Union and Confederate soldiers.
Free admission and shuttle tickets are available at the Ticketing Counter inside Gettysburg National Military Park Museum & Visitor Center. The site is accessible by shuttle only. Tickets may only be obtained the day of your visit to the Spangler Farm.
Program Schedule
An Army Field Hospital: The George Spangler Farm
11am-Noon
Join a National Park Service Ranger at the George Spangler Farm and discover the field hospital where over 1,900 soldiers wounded in the battle of Gettysburg were cared for.
Arts and Trades of the Past
10:15-10:45am
12:15-12:45pm
Join living historians demonstrating trades of the period and get a glimpse at civilian life at the farm.
History Comes to Life: War Reaches the Homefront
1-1:30pm
View a dramatic ensemble cast of soldiers and civilians who witnessed the battle of Gettysburg and the George Spangler Farm’s transformation from home to hospital.
Interactive History Encampments
10am-2pm
Mingle with living historians in authentic camps portraying the civilian experience, civilian aide societies, Civil War field medicine and Union artillery.
Charlie Weaver’s Carvings on Display
June 24, 2013Charlie Weaver’s Carvings On display at:
Soldiers National Museum
777 Baltimore Street
Gettysburg, PA 17325
Who was Charlie Weaver?
Clifford Charles Arquette
(12/27/1905 – 10/23/1974)
Cliff, born in Toledo, Ohio was a comedian, actor, pianist, composer, songwriter, wood carver and Civil War buff; however, he was best known for his role as Charlie Weaver.
His family got their start in show business largely due to his career (His son Lewis, and his grandchildren Patricia, Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond, and David Arquette).
Cliff Arquette’s Soldiers Museum opened in Gettysburg in 1959.
Due to professional obligations in California, he sold the museum to Leroy Smith who continued operating it as Charlie Weaver’s American Museum of the Civil War with Cliff’s blessing.
These carvings are a selection of the 57 figures that Charlie did.
For Charlie, it was a labor of love, requiring 25 years of research and careful work to ensure that everything about the figures was perfectly reproduced.
He made them entirely by hand starting by sawing the white pine block, down to every last stitch in the uniforms.
Charlie made all of the accessories, including making custom molds to cast each of the trigger plates and hammerlocks on the painstakingly reproduced guns.