Granite station
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Location | Near intersection of and Granite Station Rd Adams County, Pennsylvania United States | ||||||||||
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Closed | c. 1900-1910 | ||||||||||
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Granite station was the first Gettysburg Railroad train station east of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, until an American Civil War station for Camp Letterman was built near the for supplying the hospital for Battle of Gettysburg wounded. Gulden's Station was to the west near , and 600 Confederates were posted at Granite Station during Early's raids in Pennsylvania just prior to the Battle of Gettysburg.[1] The station was at the subsequent spur for the 1893 on a 0.5 mi (0.80 km)[2] serpentine path around Granite Hill to a quarry. The station included an 1867 grain and hay business of Philip Hann & Sons,[3] the Eckenrode warehouse[4] sold in 1870,[5] and the 1909 John Stallsmith warehouse.[6]
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- ^ "Most and least effective generals at Gettysburg". CivilWarTalk.com. April 22, 2010. Retrieved 2012-01-03.
- ^ "Annual report on the statistics of railways in the United States - United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Statistics, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Google Boeken". 1893. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
- ^ "The Compiler - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ^ "Gettysburg Compiler - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ^ "Gettysburg Times - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ^ "New Oxford Item - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved 29 April 2016.
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- Demolished railway stations in the United States
- Railway stations in Pennsylvania
- Former populated places in Pennsylvania
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1858
- Former Western Maryland Railway stations