{"nrhp_refnum":"66000642","name":"Gettysburg National Military Park","other_names":["See Also:Covered Bridges of Adams, Cumberland, and Perry Cou"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Gettysburg National Military Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gettysburg","county":"Adams County","state":"PA","lat":39.81532532050005,"lon":-77.24474178401019,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Politics/Government","Landscape Architecture","Conservation","Historic - Non-Aboriginal"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Gettysburg National Military Park and the Soldiers' National Cemetery, a designed commemorative battlefield park and national cemetery in and around the borough of Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, covering the terrain of the July 1863 battle.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the park is significant for its association with the Battle of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address delivered at the Soldiers' National Cemetery, for its designed commemorative landscape of avenues, markers and monuments, and for the potential archaeological information in the battlefield. It also states that the battle had national importance for Confederate strategy and for the preservation of the Union.","narrative":"Gettysburg National Military Park covers the ground of the three-day battle fought on July 1-3, 1863, in and around the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. The park includes Little Round Top, Seminary Ridge, Cemetery Ridge, Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill, along with farm fields, woodlots, orchards, and stone and rail fences that shaped the fighting. The Soldiers' National Cemetery was dedicated in November 1863, where Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, and its design by William Saunders was largely complete by 1869. Veterans led preservation efforts from 1864, and the federal park was established in 1895 with monuments, formal avenues and designed landscape features. The park is regarded as a leading example of a designed commemorative battlefield, and its terrain is considered likely to yield further archaeological information about the battle.","period_of_significance":"1863-1938","architect_builder":"Cope, Emmor Bradley (GNMP); Saunders, William (SNC)","architectural_style":"No Style","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.023001-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/66000642.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000642/c700804759-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000642/c700804759-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"David Dugan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:15-23-0291,_artillery_on_seminary_ridge_-_panoramio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">David Dugan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:15-23-0291,_artillery_on_seminary_ridge_-_panoramio.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"75000155","name":"Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/gettysburg-battlefield-historic-district-75000155/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995661","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_National_Military_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5554764"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/adams-county/gettysburg-national-military-park-66000642/"}