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Identification:
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Preferred Structure Name:
| Topographic Baseline Marker
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Structure Number:
| MN815
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Other Structure Name(s):
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Other Structure Name(s)
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| No records. |
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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:
| 081265
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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:
| Civil War Marker of the War Dept. Era (1895-1927). Was one of the permanently fixed locations to determine true grade for War Dept. engineers during their survey of the battlefield (1893-1900). Located in Ziegler's Grove.
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Long Significance Description:
| Gettysburg National Military Park is the site of the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, the Soldiers’ National Cemetery and the commemoration of the great battle by Civil War veterans. The Civil War had a dramatic impact on the political and social evolution of the United States. The Battle of Gettysburg has national significance for its impact upon the Confederate war strategy and for its role in the ultimate preservation of the Union. Although the Battle of Gettysburg did not conclude the Civil War, the three-day struggle on the ridges and valleys in and around the small agricultural village brought it to world attention and lasting notoriety. It ended slavery and defined the meaning of freedom, citizenship and equality for all Americans.
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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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1893
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AD
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1895
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AD
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Function and Use:
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Primary Historic Function:
| Monument (Marker, Plaque)
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Primary Current Use:
| Monument (Marker, Plaque)
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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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| No records. |
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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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Granite
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Short Physical Description:
| Quarried granite boundary marker, 6"x6"x10".
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