Round Top Station

Round Top Station
Round-Top R. R. Station
train station
By 1916, Round Top Station had a siding of the Round Top Branch that used the Gettysburg Electric Railway
Name origin: Round Top landform
(Big & Little Round Top)
Country United States
State Pennsylvania
County Adams
Township Cumberland
Populated place Round Top
Part of Round Top Branch
Crossing Wheatfield Road
 - coordinates 39°47′40″N 77°13′57″W / 39.79442°N 77.232395°W / 39.79442; -77.232395Coordinates: 39°47′40″N 77°13′57″W / 39.79442°N 77.232395°W / 39.79442; -77.232395
Established 1884

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[9] blacksmith shop.[10] 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.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Tour Landis Valley Museum". Landisvalleymuseum.org. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
  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.
  4. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_VMmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JgAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1507,753004&dq=round-top-branch&hl=en
  5. ↑ "Local Flashes, Ox Roast on the Fourth, & Excursions" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler. June 24, 1884. p. 3. Retrieved 2011-02-25. D. S. Fuhrman…on the Gilbert property…will sell tickets covering fifteen baths for one dollar.
  6. ↑ http://www.google.com/search?q=Bushman+fire+1889+%22round+top%22&tbs=nws:1,ar:1&source=newspapers
  7. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0XEmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ff8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4952,111837&dq=trolley+1894+gettysburg&hl=en
  8. ↑ Map of the Battle Field of Gettysburg (Map). Cartography by Gettysburg National Park Commission: Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A. New York: Julius Bien & Co. Lith. 1904.
  9. ↑ "Oliver F Rouzer (1861 - 1935) - Find A Grave Memorial". Findagrave.com. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
  10. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gGgmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nv8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2262,322729&dq=rosensteel+round-top&hl=en
  11. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=7_FrD3gH8REC&dat=19420202&printsec=frontpage
G. "Gettysburg Times Archives". Gettysburg Times. Times and News Publishing Company. Retrieved 2010-02-20.  References at the Google News Archive:
  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. PRIVATE SALE --OF-- A DESIRABLE BUSINESS RESIDENCE AT ROUND-TOP STATION. THE undersigned offers at Private Sale the Bushman residence at Round-Top. Said residence consisisting of a fine large FRAME HOUSE, including the Sedgwick Post Office and Store Room, good well of water at the door, good Barn, Chicken House, Chopping Mill and all necessary out-buildings. Fruit in abundance, including a good Peach Orchard. About 4 Acres of land and a new Warehouse at the Round-Top R. R. Station. Buildings all built within the last five years. …apply to GEORGE BUSHMAN, SR., OR GEORGE J. BUSHMAN, JR., Mar. 10, 1891. tf. Gettysburg, Pa.
  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).
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