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Identification:
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Preferred Structure Name:
| High Water Mark of the Rebellion Monument
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Structure Number:
| MN230
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Other Structure Name(s):
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Other Structure Name(s)
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1.
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High Water Mark of The Rebellion/GBMA Marker
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Park:
| Gettysburg National Military Park
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Historic District:
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Historic District
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| No records. |
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Structure State:
| Pennsylvania
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Structure County:
| Adams
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Region:
| Northeast
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Cluster:
| Chesapeake
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Administrative Unit:
| Gettysburg National Military Park
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LCS ID:
| 009951
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Historical Significance:
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National Register Status:
| Entered - Documented
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National Register Date:
| 01/23/2004
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National Historic Landmark?:
| No
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Significance Level:
| Contributing
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Short Significance Description:
| 1 of 6 National monuments, second oldest. Commerates both Union and Confederate forces that fought at Gettysburg. Represents the turning point of the rebellion. Located at the Copse of Trees West of North Hancock.
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Construction Period:
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Construction Period:
| Historic
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Chronology:
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Physical Event
| Begin Year
| Begin Year AD/BC
| End Year
| End Year AD/BC
| Designer
| Designer Occupation
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1.
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Built
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1892
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AD
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Bachelder, John B.
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Sculptor
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2.
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Altered
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1895
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AD
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3.
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Restored
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1976
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AD
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1977
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AD
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NPS
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Other
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4.
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Preserved
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2000
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AD
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5.
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Rehabilitated
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2001
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AD
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Function and Use:
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Primary Historic Function:
| Outdoor Sculpture (Statuary)
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Primary Current Use:
| Outdoor Sculpture (Statuary)
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Structure Contains Museum Collections?:
| No
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Other Functions or Uses:
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Other Function(s) or Use(s)
| Historic or Current
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1.
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Monument (Marker, Plaque)
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Historic
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2.
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Monument (Marker, Plaque)
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Current
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Physical Description:
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Structure Type:
| Outdoor Sculpture
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Material(s):
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Structural Component(s)
| Material(s)
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1.
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Superstructure
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Bronze
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2.
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Superstructure
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Granite
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3.
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Substructure
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Granite
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Short Physical Description:
| Combined w/Mn 389. Mn base 11'4"sq, rough hewn. Shaft of polished granite topped w/oversized open bronze book. Tablets 4 sides w/rear tablet added 1895 (MN389) listing directors of Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association. All 9'H.
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Long Physical Description:
| Monument is a polished granite shaft topped with an oversized open bronze book and set on a 11.4 foot square rough hewn base. Tablets are on all four sides, with the rear tablet added in 1895 that lists the directors of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association. Overall height is nine feet. Granolithic concrete sidewalks with granite curbing surround the monument. Two bronze Napoleon cannon on cast iron carriages, with stacked bronze ammunition, complete the monument grouping. Located at the Copse of Trees west of Hancock Avenue.
Granolithic concrete sidewalks w/ granite curbing surround monument. 2 bronze Napoleon cannon on cast-iron carriages w/stacked bronze ammo complete monument grouping.
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