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Identification:
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Preferred Structure Name:
| National Cemetery Lafayette Square Iron Fence
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Structure Number:
| CM03
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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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Lafayette Square Iron Fence
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Park:
| Gettysburg National Military Park
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Park District:
| GETC Gettysburg National Cemetery
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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:
| 006961
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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:
| Representative of fence extant at Park along Baltimore Pike & Taneytown Rd. Moved to site in 1933 from E Cemetery Hill. Originally removed from LaFayette Square in Washington, D.C. by Act of Congress to ornament/enclose E Cemetery Hill.
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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
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1.
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Moved
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1888
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AD
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2.
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Reconstructed
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1933
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AD
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Function and Use:
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Primary Historic Function:
| Cemetery
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Primary Current Use:
| Cemetery
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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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| No records. |
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Physical Description:
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Structure Type:
| Grounds/Landscape
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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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Cast Iron
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Short Physical Description:
| Iron picket fence moved from LaFayette Square in Washington, DC to Gettysburg 1888 erected on SE and E lines of cemetery 1933. 1450' long x 7' high, each section 7' long.
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