UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Gettysburg and Our Gettysburgians and The Battle Described by Our Forebears.

Resident Gettysburg Borough by order of known presence

Troxell
Swope
Slentz
Meals
Wives Surnames suppressed by marriage to above Surnames and who made Gettysburg Home , 
many were from the County
Mohler
Baughman/Bachman
Spangler
Stair
Bentz
Reinecke 
Howard
 

Gettysburg was founded 1780 by James Gettys , incorporated 1802
Gettysburg Square, Previously known as the Diamond. Photo by Don Worth and from Gettysburg Photo Album Panoramas, part of the Civil War Album website
The home on the left facing us was the home in which Nancy McCurdy Swope died. My father told me that the family hid in the basement of this home during the battle. Across the street and to its right is the site of the Gettysburg Hotel, which was the Buck Tavern, opened by John Troxell in 1804.


Bridge from http://www.fullergreyhounds.com/links.htm