National historic site · Cumberland Township, Adams County
Eisenhower National Historic Site
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.
What you will find
- Historic features
Make a day of it
Nearby
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Gettysburg National Military Park
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.
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Seminary Ridge Museum
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
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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Caledonia State Park
The rebuilt stack of Thaddeus Stevens' iron furnace, burned by Confederate troops on the road to Gettysburg, anchors this South Mountain park, with the Appalachian Trail, a big pool and summer theater.
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Michaux State Forest
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.
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Mont Alto State Park
The longest-serving park in Pennsylvania's state system began as a railroad excursion ground in 1875, and its domed dance pavilion, picnic grove and trout stream still make for a gentle afternoon.
