Adams County 5

5 places to explore in Adams County, Pennsylvania — part of the Dutch Country Roads region.

  • Seminary Ridge Museum

    History museum · Gettysburg, Adams County

    This seminary building served as a Union lookout and field hospital on the battle's first day; today it's a museum of that fighting and its wounded, with guided climbs into the historic cupola.

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  • Gettysburg National Military Park

    National military park · Cumberland Township, Adams County

    The fields, ridges and woods of the Civil War's bloodiest battle, fought in July 1863, with more than 1,300 monuments, the great cyclorama painting and the cemetery where Lincoln spoke.

  • Eisenhower National Historic Site

    National historic site · Cumberland Township, Adams County

    Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower's farm beside the Gettysburg battlefield, the only home they ever owned, where Ike relaxed, raised Angus cattle and entertained world leaders.

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  • Gettysburg

    Town · Gettysburg, Adams County

    A brick-and-clapboard crossroads town wrapped by the battlefield, with Lincoln Square, the house where Lincoln stayed the night before his famous address, a college campus and orchard country close by.

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  • Gettysburg National Military Park

    National military park · Cumberland Township, Adams County

    The fields, ridges and woods of the Civil War's bloodiest battle, fought in July 1863, with more than 1,300 monuments, the great cyclorama painting and the cemetery where Lincoln spoke.

  • Michaux State Forest

    State forest · Menallen Township, Adams County · 87,468 acres

    South Mountain's big working forest, where Pennsylvania's first forestry school took root, crossed by the Appalachian Trail and dotted with rocky overlooks and charcoal hearths from the old iron-furnace days.