Adams county driveJun 23, 2012
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| Today we took the Adams county scenic valley driving tour. It started in Gettysburg along seminary ridge, the main confederate position, and among the monuments and markers we saw Florida's. The ridge is named for a Lutheran seminary, founded in 1826 and still operational. Then we drove winding hilly roads through farming country, past multiple peach and apple orchards. We passed a stone church, built in 1790. We diverted from the route to see the round barn and farm market www.roundbarngettysburg.com. It was built in 1914, is one of only a few barrel barns still in existence, is 282 feet in circumference and has a central silo 60' high. Looking up at the wood shake roof is something. We bought some local produce here, and then proceeded over several "mountains" 1300' high, with apple orchards on their slopes. We were in apple capital USA when we Drove into bigger villa where a mussel man smokestack from a 1907 plant greeted us -the plant still operates. We visited the Thomas bros. country store built in 1909. As we walked into this menagerie of old items we were greeted by 88 year old Mrs. Harbaugh who pointed out a front page Sat. Evening Post article from 1960 about pres. Eisenhower's visit to the store. She went to the presidential inaugural ball, and Mamie was a frequent visitor to this store. Mrs. Harbaugh is quite a character, and the building is a national historic landmark. As we entered Gettysburg, we drove past Gettysburg college and a statute of pres. Eisenhower stands in front of the building he used as an office in retirement. We stopped by the Lydia Leister house, just up the road from the campground. It was used as a hospital after the battle. Reenactors there discussed medicine at that time and the role women played in supplying the troops, they displayed hard tack and other food items and were very informative. |
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