We are going to re-visit the Gettysburg Battlefield once more today for an hour or so before we head further West along the Historic Lincoln Highway.
I would not have imagined that we would be quite this interested in a battlefield that had little to nothing to do with anything Canadian, however you get drawn into the history of this town and I can see us coming back to revisit this area. Perhaps next time we will ride horses out onto the battlefield, you can take tours on horseback.
We wanted to visit the Soldiers National Cemetery. This is the location where Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address speech, probably one of his best known speeches.
The actual spot where Lincoln stood is a couple of thousand feet inside the gate to the cemetery. Along the walking path we passed thousands of small square grave markers, all numbered sequentially and these are the final resting place for so many soldiers killed in the 3 day battle, but they were never identified.
Lincoln gave his famous speech at the foot of the Soldiers National Monument.
Yesterday we missed one stop on the auto tour, stop 15 so we went back to check that out. Good thing we did, there is a lot here we would have missed. A few of the highlights, and the rest you can see on our FLICKR site.
A segway tour passed us, that would also be a neat way to see the park.
Some more photos.
Time for us to leave Gettysburg and continue along the Lincoln Highway.
Our first stop is just West of Gettysburg at The Land of the Little Horses. As the name implies, there are little horses here. Karen came here some 20 years ago so she was anxious to return and re-visit the horses.
There was a horse show inside the arena, where the horses showed off their tricks, plus there was a piano playing pig and a basketball playing dog.. A great spot to bring the little ones and those who are young at heart.
Moving along the Lincoln, we came to the Round Barn in Biglerville Pennsylvania. We visited a Round Barn on Route 66 a few summers ago. It was boarded up and inactive, but this Round Barn was buzzing with activity, a fruit market / roadside attraction and there were lots of people visiting and buying the fresh fruit and baked goods. The peaches for sale were grown in the orchards behind the barn. The Route 66 Round Barn should take note and follow this example.
Further along the Lincoln we came upon another roadside attraction… Mr Ed’s Elephant Museum.
Inside there are countless thousands of elephants.
Further along we passed by the Oak Forest Restaurant and Cabins.
The Fulton House, built in 1793. Beside the Fulton House was this mural and concrete marker.
We stopped for a break at the Travellers Rest Motel.
Of course there were many other stop, too many to go into in this blog, but our final stop of the day was in Bedford Pennsylvania at the Coffee Pot.
To see all of our photos from today (just over 400) click on the link to our FLICKR site.
