Hancock Station

Hancock Station
train station
Hancock Station was between the Gettysburg and Round Top Stations (left).
Name origin: Winfield Scott Hancock
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Adams
Part of	Round Top Branch
Location	near intersection of Hancock Avenue and Pleasanton Avenue
Established	c. 1884

Hancock Station was a Gettysburg Battlefield station of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad (the Reading's Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway in 1891) near the Tammany^[1] and Vermont monuments.^[2] The station was used at the end of the memorial association era and through the commemorative era for delivering tourists and materials (e.g., sculpted granite for monuments) such as for the 1910 Pennsylvania State Memorial and 1913 Gettysburg reunion. Before the G & H denied use of the steamtrain line, the Gettysburg Electric Railway considered placing a generator plant at the station for the electric trolley,^[3] but the trolley plant and its coal yard were instead built diagonal from the borough's G & H RR station.

References

1. "In the Bloody Angle" (Google News Archive). Bridgeport Morning News. Bridgeport, Connecticut. September 25, 1891. Retrieved 2011-10-16. The Tammany braves dedicated the monument…to mark the position in the Bloody Angle held by the Forty-second New York … after 9 o'clock when the followers of the old Tammany fell into line and marched down to the Reading railroad station, boarded their cars and were drawn rapidly out to Hancock station on the Second Corps line, a short distance from the big monument.
2. Monuments at Gettysburg: Report of the Vermont Commissioners (Report). 1888. State of Vermont is engaged [for] a State monument, to be located on Hancock Avenue, near Hancock Station,
3. "The Electric Line on the Battlefield" (Google News Archive). The Star and Sentinel. June 20, 1893. Retrieved 2011-02-25. The trolley people propose to build a station just where Hancock was wounded.