The name “Two Taverns” comes from the two stout, old stone dwellings presently located diagonally across the Baltimore Pike from one another. The precise dates of construction remain unsubstantiated. The developing hamlet of Two Taverns sprang from a natural conjunction … Continue reading →
The Rock Creek/Union Hospital Complex is located southeast of Gettysburg along Rock Creek, White Run, and various tributaries. This area of land of 15 contiguous properties made up the hospital sites of the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Twelfth … Continue reading →
This handsome working cattle farm is located about 3/4ths of a mile southwest of the most remote federal Civil War hospital from the Gettysburg battlefield. It was the Third division field hospital of the Fifth corps and has the official … Continue reading →
The Durboraw Farm is located about a mile northeast of the village of Two Taverns. When Lt. Isaac Durboraw of Company K, visited his family’s farm on July 4th, after he found his home filled with wounded soldiers, on of … Continue reading →
It was common to have different classes of taverns to accommodate different classes of travelers. As the large Conestoga wagons rumbled to a stop, it’s likely the humble teamsters or wagoners slept under their wagons in warm weather or spread … Continue reading →
In architecture, both the taverns are consistent with the Georgian style. The Two Tavern structures utilized the rich building resources of the region. The brown fieldstone, clay and lime along with hand hewn log timbers were used in the foundation … Continue reading →
“White Church” (founded in 1789) was already an active church before the Battle of Gettysburg. In 1863, the building was described as a wood church constructed of hewed logs, weather-board on the outside plastered on the inside. Locally it was … Continue reading →
The Isaac Lightner farm is located on Rt. 97 diagonally from White Church. Private John Chase of the 5th marine Battery wrote that he was taken to the First Army Corps Hospital at the Lightner farm. It was three days … Continue reading →
This hospital site overlapped the other hospital sites. It contained soldiers from Second, Fifth, and Sixth Corps. This hospital was well organized and center to the other hospitals. Lewis Schaeffer, 68th Pennsylvania, a nurse, was put in charge of Ward … Continue reading →
The property became a Federal Corp hospital on July 3, 1863, and remained so through the middle of August. The farm has approximately 2,33 Union and about 1,000 Confederate wounded soldiers. Most of the confederates were captured during General Longstreet’s … Continue reading →
