Gettysburg, PA: Museum/Western Maryland (Lincoln) Depot and Lincoln Highway

Depot: (Satellite)

Lincoln Highway Overview

Note the preserved train order semaphores. I wonder who currently operates this route.

Street View, Oct 2024

Andy Sarge posted
The Gettysburg "Lincoln" Depot. The Gettysburg Railroad opened the Depot in 1858 and hosted President Lincoln when arrived to tour the battlefield and deliver the Gettysburg Address. The rail line would later become a branch of the Western Maryland Railroad.

Eric Zeliff: Try about 5 years after 1858

Randall Hampton: Lincoln arrived from the left. At that time, the line ended here. The infamous railroad cut to the west did not yet have tracks.

Jim Fredlund posted

GETTYSBURG RAILROAD STATION

The Gettysburg Railroad Station, completed in 1859, stands as one of the most significant surviving Civil War-era rail depots in the United States. Built by the Gettysburg Railroad Company, the station quickly became vital infrastructure during the Civil War.

In July 1863, as the Battle of Gettysburg raged nearby, the station served as a crucial logistical hub. After the fighting ended, thousands of wounded Union and Confederate soldiers were transported from Gettysburg through this depot to hospitals in larger cities. The rail lines that once symbolized commerce became lifelines of evacuation and recovery.

Perhaps most famously, on November 18, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at this very station to attend the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery. The following day, he delivered the Gettysburg Address—one of the most consequential speeches in American history—just a short distance away.

Today, the restored station operates as a museum and interpretive center, preserving the memory of its wartime role and its connection to Lincoln’s visit. It remains a powerful architectural witness to one of the defining chapters of the American story.

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Reading Railroad had a branch that terminated in this town.

1951/53 Gettysburg Quad @ 24,000

I cruised the Lincoln Highway through town using street view from east to west. I didn't see anything specific to the Lincoln Highway such as murals on the wall or historic markers. But I did see a lot of architecture. This block is west of the traffic circle.

Street View, Oct 2024

Even what I presume to be newer buildings are not just boxes.

Street View, Aug 2024