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Top Hotels in Gettysburg
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Wyndham Gettysburg
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Eisenhower Inn & Conference Center Gettysburg
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Courtyard by Marriott Gettysburg
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BEST WESTERN PLUS Gettysburg Hotel
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Quality Inn Gettysburg Motor Lodge
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1863 Inn of Gettysburg
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Hilton Garden Inn Gettysburg
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Hampton Inn Gettysburg
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Americas Best Value Inn Gettysburg
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Travelodge Gettysburg
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Country Hearth Inn Gettysburg
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Motel 6 Gettysburg
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Comfort Suites Gettysburg
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Quality Inn at General Lee's Headquarters Gettysburg
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Econo Lodge Gettysburg
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Sleep Inn and Suites Gettysburg
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Super 8 Gettysburg
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Red Carpet Inn Gettysburg
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Travel Blogs from Gettysburg, United States
Its a battlefield out there
This is a top pick! ... of the dispute (the southern states suceeding from the Union over Lincolns legislation outlawing slavery) and how the battles led up to Gettysburg. Gettysburg came about 2 years into the war, and it raged on for another 2 yeaars after, but it was a ...
Gettysburg, PA
Last night we got into the Gettysburg Campground after a record breaking (at least for us) 652 mile stretch from Illinois to Pennsylvania. About 13 hours. So we all were extremely beat by the time we rolled into the campground. This morning we ...
Dinner at the Dobbin's House
If you are ever in Gettysburg, you've got to make the Dobbin's House one of your stops. This historical building dates back to the Revolutionary War, and it is apparent from it's sloping floors and old time outfits that the waiters and waitresses ...
Its just a summer holiday place
This is a top pick! ... take people in to stay, they were closed for the season. As so many places are now. Carried on late as we had decided to get to Gettysburg. So it was dark by the time we got in. Not a good idea as the indicators dont work, and the headlights point in odd ...
Mile 651.4: Gettysburg
651.4 3/8 1:54 pm 46 degrees F I have an amazing sense of reverence for the museum and all that Gettysburg taught me. I was initially disappointed when the roll came out for Gettysburg, but upon arriving, I could tell that this was one of the best ...
Gettysburg and Life
When visiting Gettysburg, I recommend seeing the movie after an orientation tour. We saw the movie first but many places in the following diorama didn't make much sense to us. 1st thing in the morning we went on a bus tour, we wanted the private car tour ...
day 44
... buried and Abraham Lincoln made his famous 'four score and seven years ago '. Then, we cross town to find stop 1, where the Battle of Gettysburg started. Please don't think that this is a 'drive to the stop - get out - see the plaque/memorial - read the ...
Tour of the Battlefields
... by the regiment that it was for. In order to determine where the monument would be placed, regiments came back to Gettysburg and debated about where would be most appropriate. Some were placed in the area of most significant battle for the ...
Day Two Tour
We started out Day Two by continuing our tour of the Gettysburg area. We started at the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Since it was not only almost July 4th, but it was also the anniversary of the battle, there were flags placed at all of the ...
Riding through the battlefields
... foot down on that one, storing the RVis one thing, finding a horse sitter quite another!! We also went into Gettysburg itself, a town literally scarred forever with the wounds of the battle. Much has been done to preserve its brave past ...
Chocolate World to Gettysburg
... route the Union Army took as they retreated from the town and also the path Lincoln walked in the moments prior to his Gettysburg Address. There were many interesting things to read along the way. I kept being reminded of how much faster Carrie reads ...
Gettysburg
... miles to Gettysburg National Historic Park in Pennsylvania. I took some tours and viewed the spot Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. After I walked through the cemetery. From there I took a shuttle to the nearby Dwight D. Eisenhower ...
Visitor's Center & Cyclorama
... nbsp; At noon, we went back to the auditorium for a half hour movie narrated by Morgan Freeman on the Battle of Gettysburg. Directly after the video, you are given the opportunity to view the Cyclorama. What a breathtaking painting! With ...
Moving north - slowly!
... us a unique perspective on this most historic of sites. Housed on 'campus' was a brilliant diorama of the battlefield around Gettysburg. Complete with a presentation including a narration of the conflict this gave us - well Malc a good and me a better, ...
Four Score and Seven Years Ago
... War it did but it was actually well before defined as a property dispute between two families. The town of Gettysburg was more developed than we anticipated. This battle is known as the bloodiest massacre ever in the western hemisphere ...
The Fiftieth Day!
DAY FIFTY: Ooh, day fifty. There should be some sort of commemorative celebration for this striking accomplishment, but of course there is not, unless you consider every day on the road to be ...
Day 12: Gettysburg
... , even though he was there each time we passed by his park. We left there and went on a guided auto tour of the Gettysburg Battlefields. Yesterday we bought a CD with a guided reenactment tour on it, so we put the CD in and listened to folks explain ...
Four score and seven
Still licking my wounds from losing the vote on going to Washington, DC. we headed off to Gettysburg the decisive battle in the American civil warin 1863. Just 3 days of fighting left 51,000 dead. Some 7 million bullets were fired and incredibily the ...
Travel Day
... we visited our last museum in Philly. It was the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.s.....the first art school in the United States.....and the museum is devoted exclusively to American artists. Need we say it was wonderful..... That is ...
Gettysburg
Day 2 Gettysburg is more than what we expect. It is in a beautiful area. We arrive at the visitors center early and hire a guide to take us around the battlefield. This has to be the BEST way to see the battlefield. Our guide,Mike was incredible and ...
Cerebral Overload
Today we had a private guide who drove us through the battlefields and brought the war alive for 3 hours.........our heads were spinning by the time we got done....there are few .....if any besides us.....tourists.....so everywhere we go we are ...
Learning about war....
... , we set out for Fort McHenry in Balimore, Maryland. This is the fort that the British tried to take from the United States. Francis Scott Key witnessed the battle as a prisoner on a ship and it inspired him to write the Star Spangled ...
Civil War History Lives at Gettysburg Battlefield
We spent the afternoon driving through Gettysburg National Military Park and visiting the many battlefields, which are dotted with hundreds of memorial statues and monuments, placed and sponsored by the states whose militia fought ...
Meeting friends
... drive because it was raining so hard and the clouds were so low we wouldn't be able to see anything. Today we are going to Gettysburg because i'm going to meet up with a friend i've been chatting to on the internet for about 3 years. ...
Five active days in the City of Brotherly Love(5)
... ; Many of the sites of the battles have monuments, and have the opportunity to see the building where Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address, the church, and train station that survive to this day. As a matter of fact, the majority of buildings ...
Civil War Tour Day 28
... included water, Iced Tea, Lemonade, & coffee. After lunch we went to the David Wills House in Downtown Gettysburg. Mr. Wills was a prominent Attorney and School Superintendent. On November 18, 1863, Abe Lincoln came to Gettysburg to ...
Progress!
... RV – very nice – got a slide out bit so nice and big. Now in Pennsylvania at our first stop – Gettysburg – Barrie is composing his address now :-) . Passed through some horrendous flooding on the way and it is still ...
Night of Day 1
Bike Day 1; 06/06/2011 Its 11:25p.m., and my dad and I have just stopped for the night in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Today has been a long day, but yet very productive. We have had pretty good time on the trip so far. So much so that we have scheduled ...