Round Top Station Explained

Round Top Station
Location:Wheatfield Road
Location City:Round Top
Location Country:United States
Coordinates:39.7944°N -77.2324°W
Building Type:train station
Opened Date:1884

Round Top Station was the southernmost station of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad and was located west of a blacksmith shop along the Taneytown Road that was in operation in 1880.[1]

History

Despite the 1882 survey of a rail route from the "H. J., H. and G. Railroad" to Round Top, Pennsylvania,[2] for the Round-Top Railroad Company,[3] 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 was instead being constructed in May 1884.[4] The station warehouse was completed June 21, 1884[5] (burned February 22/23, 1889;[6] rebuilt by August 1891); and to the rear of the warehouse[7] in 1894 on a different railway from the west, the Gettysburg Electric Railway 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,[8] site of the 1895 Ollie Rouzer blacksmith shop.[9] The north-south steamtrain railbed at Round Top became the east edge of the Gettysburg National Military Park (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.[10]

References

G. News: Gettysburg Times Archives . . Times and News Publishing Company . 2010-02-20. References at the Google News Archive:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tour Landis Valley Museum . Landisvalleymuseum.org . 2012-01-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727013507/http://www.landisvalleymuseum.org/tour_bs.htm . 2011-07-27.
  2. News: June 17, 1957 . Out of the Past: Seventy-Five Years Ago . 2011-04-26 . Joseph S. Gitt, of New Oxford, is making a survey for the H. J., H. and G. Railroad company, of a route for the proposed extension of their track to Round Top. Two lines are thought of -- one running east, the other west of the town..
  3. News: Gitt . Joseph S . February 9, 1884 . February 19, 1884 . Baltimore and Harrisburg Railroad . Google News Archive . Gettysburg Compiler; Adams County Railroads: Concluded . 2011-07-05 . In August, 1882, I made surveys [for] the purpose of extending the to Round-Top for excursion purposes [by] the “Round-Top Railroad Company,” to build a line from Gettysburg… capital stock, $25,000, and A. W. Eichelberger President. The directors are Wm. Grumbine, Reuben Young, Peter Flickinger, B. M. Wirt, R. A. Eichelberger, H. A. Young, David Wills, H. D. Scott..
  4. Web site: Gettysburg Compiler - Google News Archive Search.
  5. News: June 24, 1884 . Local Flashes, Ox Roast on the Fourth, & Excursions . Google News Archive . Gettysburg Compiler . 3 . 2011-02-25 . D. S. Fuhrman…on the Gilbert property…will sell tickets covering fifteen baths for one dollar..
  6. Web site: Search results . www.google.com.
  7. Web site: The Star and Sentinel - Google News Archive Search.
  8. Julius Bien & Co. Lith. . 1904 . Map of the Battle Field of Gettysburg . Gettysburg National Park Commission

    Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A

    . New York . 2011-01-19-->.
  9. Web site: Gettysburg Times - Google News Archive Search.
  10. Web site: Gettysburg Times - Google News Archive Search.

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