Round Top Station

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Round Top Station
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By 1916, Round Top Station had a siding of the Round Top Branch that used the Gettysburg Electric Railway
Round Top Station
General information
Type train station
Location Wheatfield Road
Town or city Round Top
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 39°47′40″N77°13′57″W / 39.79442°N 77.232395°W / 39.79442; -77.232395
Opened1884

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, [G 1] for the Round-Top Railroad Company, [2] the competing G&H RR purchased property from Lewis A. Bushman in April 1884 for excursions [3] (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); [G 2] and to the rear of the warehouse [7] in 1894 on a different railway from the west, the Gettysburg Electric Railway began trolley operations [G 3] 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 c.1942 when the branch's abandonment application was filed. [10]

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References

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  2. Gitt, Joseph S (February 9, 1884). "Baltimore and Harrisburg Railroad" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler; Adams County Railroads: Concluded (published February 19, 1884). Retrieved 2011-07-05. In August, 1882, I made surveys [for] the purpose of extending the Gettysburg Railroad [ sic ] 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.
  3. "The New Railroad: Its Pictures, Round-Top Branch, &c" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler. April 29, 1884. Retrieved 2011-05-11. Lewis A. Bushman has contracted with Joseph J. Smith for the erection of a warehouse and dwelling at the terminus of the branch, on the Taneytown road. The railroad company has purchased a tract of 15 acres from Mr. Bushman between the Taneytown road and Little Round-Top for excursion purposes.
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  1. "Out of the Past: Seventy-Five Years Ago". June 17, 1957. Retrieved 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.
  2. "Private Sale". July 28, 1891. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
  3. "Story of Old Trolley Line Told to Club". April 30, 1952. Retrieved 2011-02-26.NOTE: North of the Round Top station on the Round Top Branch was the Hancock Station near the battlefield's Vermont Memorial on Grand Central Avenue ("Hancock" Av by 1886).