{"nrhp_refnum":"83004258","name":"Hanover Junction Railroad Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"PA 616","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hanover Junction","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":39.843701441000064,"lon":-76.77683342199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-12-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Transportation","Communications"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story frame railroad station at Hanover Junction in North Codorus Township, York County, Pennsylvania, built between 1852 and 1854 as a connector station for the Northern Central Railway.","why_significant":"The station is the only surviving part of a once important rail and telegraph center. It is significant for its role in the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign, including the evacuation of wounded and its association with Abraham Lincoln's November 1863 journey to Gettysburg. The nomination also notes its telegraph history and its link to a 1950s controversy over photographs said to show Lincoln at the station.","narrative":"Built between 1852 and 1854 as a connector station for the Northern Central Railway, the rectangular frame building at Hanover Junction is three stories high, with one-story porches along its long walls. The station was the only surviving part of a major rail and telegraph center in south-central Pennsylvania, linking several feeder lines to the Northern Central corridor from the 1850s onward. It handled telegraph traffic and once housed a school for telegraphers. During the Gettysburg Campaign in 1863, Confederate cavalry destroyed the telegraph office, and the station later served as a depot for repair crews and as an aid station where wounded soldiers were processed on their way to hospitals. In November 1863, Abraham Lincoln passed through on his way to the Gettysburg dedication. The building is now abandoned, and its porches are decaying, though the structure is still sound.","period_of_significance":"1852-54; 1863","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Abandoned; deteriorating but structurally sound, with its east porch rapidly decaying.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.974742-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/83004258.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004258/7dd1355f31-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004258/7dd1355f31-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Mathew Brady, or his assistant","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hanover_Junction_RR_Station_1863.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mathew Brady, or his assistant</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hanover_Junction_RR_Station_1863.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995752","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover_Junction_Railroad_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5649400"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/hanover-junction-railroad-station-83004258/"}