Pitzer Woods
| Pitzer Woods | |
| forest area | |
| Name origin: Emmanual Pitzer | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | Pennsylvania |
| Location | "Pitzer Woods" marker |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Highest point | |
| - elevation | 30 ft (9.1 m) (prominence)[1][2] |
| Biome | Northern Piedmont ecoregion |
| Geology | Gettysburg-Newark Lowlands, Rossville Diabase dike[1] (50 feet thick) |
| Historic District GNMP structure |
Gettysburg Battlefield (75000155) ID56 [3] |
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Pitzer Woods is a Gettysburg Battlefield site used for Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War such as the 1933-7 Camp Renaissance Civilian Conservation Corps camp.
| External images | |
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 Pitzer Woods (NPS.gov) |
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| Pitzer Farm (WorldFlicks.org) |
History
Pitzer Woods was the site of July 1st & 2nd fighting during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.[4] After the CCC camp closed, Fort Indiantown Gap used Pitzer Woods in 1941 and conducted aerial reconnaissance training using the battlefield.[5] During 1943-4, Camp Sharpe used the Pitzer Woods camp ("in a muddy hollow at the bottom of a slanting road")[6] to train soldiers for psychological operations in the European Theater of Operations. In 1946, agricultural laborers from the Bahamas (July 16)[2] and Jamaica were housed on Seminary Ridge. The Pitzer Woods amphitheater was constructed in the 1960s,[7] and the July 3, 1998 James Longstreet memorial was erected at the Pitzer Woods site that had been dedicated in 1941.[8]
References
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Willoughby Run (1191496)
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (Fort Story troops conducted the parade.)[1]
