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1951 Map of Gettysburg

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Gettysburg
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1990
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1990

About this map

Gettysburg serves as the hub of this mid-century topographic survey, showing the town at a point of significant post-war modernization alongside its deeply preserved commemorative landscape. While the borough expands near the County Home and Warner Hospital, the surrounding fields remain defined by the monuments and markers of the Gettysburg National Military Park. Military history researchers can trace the tactical positions along Seminary Ridge and Cemetery Hill, or locate smaller features like The Angle and Devils Den in relation to the era's roads.

Industrial and institutional life is marked by the Western Maryland Railroad corridor, which includes the Granite Hill Sta to the east. The landscape reveals the social infrastructure of Adams County, from Gettysburg College to the Hoffman Orphanage and the County Prison. Rural life continues in outlying settlements like Bonneauville and Two Taverns, where traditional farming patterns still dominate the drainage basins of Rock Creek and Alloway Creek.