Gettysburg Farms – Photo Essay
Posted to the Project on 06 Sep 07
Some pictures of some of the more famous farm buildings at Gettysburg. Many of these buildings were used as field hospitals or aid stations and many were at “Ground Zero” of the fighting on July 1, 2, and/or 3. If you’ve never been to Gettysburg, here’s your chance to see what the buildings you read about look like today (many haven’t changed much since 1863). Photos from all seasons taken between 2005 and 2007.
The Culp Farm
The Bushman Farm
The Trostle Farm
The Rummel Farm
The McPherson Farm
The Rose Farm
The G. Weikert Farm
The Spangler Farm
The Codori Farm
The Hoffman Farm
The Slyder Farm
The E. Pitzer Farm
The McLean Farm
President Eisenhower’s Farm
The Butt Farm (Fairfield Road; field hospital during the battle)
Emmitsburg Road Farm Line – Sherfy, Rogers, Klingel
Peter Frey Farm
The Hummelbaugh Farm
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Hey, Jenny,
You’ve got your Slyder and Rummel farm pics all buggered up….
Eric
Rummel may indeed be wrong (I thought that was Rummel, but the only one I knew for sure on East Cavalry was Hoffman) ….. but I’m fairly certain Slyder is Slyder. In the first image, you can even see the monument to companies E&H of the 2nd US Sharpshooters (Vermont). We walked down the Slyder Farm lane and then all the way out to the 1st Vermont Cavalry monument on a horse trail and that’s how I got the close ups of both Bushman and Slyder.
Jenny,
I have been an admirer of your Gettysburg photgraphs (actually all of your photographs!) up on Flickr, then found your work here on this site. I am an artist attempting to paint the significant farms on the Gettysburg battlefield, and you have inadvertently been a huge help to me in locating these farms with your photographs.
I was wondering if you knew of any available maps that have the actual location of each farm on the battlefield. I have been searching the web for weeks, to no avail. I know that I have photographed the majority of them for reference work, but my goal is to get to each farm and paint on site.
I would appreciate any information, or if you could point me in the right direction I can continue my research.
Thanks,
Claire
Greatly appreciate your photographs, especially those of the Trostle Barn. Keep up the great work.
Dave Trostle