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Hummelbaugh Farm, Pleasonton Avenue, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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Significance: The farm house was used by General Alfred Pleasonton of the Union as a headquarters during the Battle of Gettysburg and also as a hospital by U.S. troops. Confederate Gen. William Barksdale died at the house and was buried on the grounds. The rest of the farm structures were also used by the troops and suffered various amounts of damage. The house was constructed during the 1840s and was originally a log 1 story house...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-286

Survey number: HABS PA-1961

Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction

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farms wooden buildings agriculture campaigns and battles smokehouses adams county hummelbaugh farm hummelbaugh farm pleasonton pleasonton avenue gettysburg adams pennsylvania kenneth l anderson william barksdale jose martinez canino john heiser historic american buildings survey jacob hummelbaugh leonard kliwinski rudd long alfred pleasanton allan stockler design library of congress
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Date

1845 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Hummelbaugh, Jacob
Pleasanton, Alfred
Barksdale, William
Canino, Jose Martinez, field team
Stockler, Allan, field team
Anderson, Kenneth L, project manager
Heiser, John, delineator
Kliwinski, Leonard, delineator
Long, Rudd, delineator
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adams county ,  39.80791, -77.23155
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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farms wooden buildings agriculture campaigns and battles smokehouses adams county hummelbaugh farm hummelbaugh farm pleasonton pleasonton avenue gettysburg adams pennsylvania kenneth l anderson william barksdale jose martinez canino john heiser historic american buildings survey jacob hummelbaugh leonard kliwinski rudd long alfred pleasanton allan stockler design library of congress