www.adamscountyusa.com
School Tools
Field Trips
Many historic sites, businesses, agencies and horse farms welcome student groups and provide
scheduled tours. As for all field trips, school staff members should contact individual
destinations to determine times and policies regarding student visitors.
ADAMS COUNTY USA PLACES TO VISIT
Adams County Courthouse
Baltimore & Middle Sts., Gettysburg
334-6781
Adams County Historical Society
Schmucker Hall
Lutheran Theological Seminary
Gettysburg
334-4723
Tours
Adams County Historic Conewago Tour
(includes East Cavalry Battlefield, Victorian New Oxford, Colonial East Berlin)
Adams County Scenic Valley Tour
Heritage Sites Walking Tour
Information available from:
Gettysburg Convention and Visitors Bureau
717-334-6274
www.gettysburg.com
*Eisenhower National Historic Site
338-9114
www.nps.gov/gett/
*Gettysburg National Military Park
334-1134
www.nps.gov/gett/
Main Street Gettysburg
59 E. High St., Gettysburg
337-3491
www.mainstreetgettysburg.org
*Caledonia State Park
Site of Thaddeus Stevens’ forge
352-2161
Caledonia@dcnr.state.pa.us
Michaux State Forest
352-2211
fd01@denr.state.pa.us
Historic Sites and Services
American Stories
Historic Walking Tours
49 Steinwehr Ave., Gettysburg
at the Regimental Quartermaster
www.expage.com/americanstories
Civil War Mourning Theater
Candlelight Ghost Walks
Historic Farnsworth House
401 Baltimore St., Gettysburg
334-8838
Coster Avenue Painting
Stevens Street, Gettysburg
Explore and More
Hands-on Children’s Museum, ages 3-8
20 E. High St., Gettysburg
337-9151
www.exploreandmore.com
General Lee’s Headquarters
401 Buford Ave., Gettysburg
334-3141
www.civilwarheadquarters.com
Gettysburg Battle Theatre
571 Steinwehr Ave., Gettysburg
334-6100
Gettysburg Diorama
Artillery Ridge Campground
610 Taneytown Rd., Gettysburg
334-6408
www.artilleryridge.com
Gettysburg Tour Center
Soldiers National Museum
200 Steinwehr Ave., Gettysburg
334-6296
Ghosts of Gettysburg
Candlelight Walking Tours
271 Baltimore St., Gettysburg
337-0445
www.ghostsofgettysburg.com
Hall of Presidents
200 Steinwehr Ave., Gettysburg
334-6296
*Historic Dobbin House, Gettysburg
89 Steinwehr Ave., Gettysburg
334-2100
www.dobbinhouse.com
*Historic Round Barn
Knouse Fruitlands Inc.
P.O. Box 549, Arendtsville
298 Cashtown Rd., Arendtsville
334-1984
Jenny Wade House
246 Baltimore St., Gettysburg
334-6296
Land of Little Horses Farm Park
125 Glenwood Dr., Gettysburg
334-7259
info@landoflittlehorses.com
Lincoln Room Museum
Historic Wills House
12 Lincoln Square, Gettysburg
334-8188
Lincoln Train Museum
200 Steinwehr Ave., Gettysburg
334-6296
National Apple Harvest Festival
www.appleharvest.com
National Apple Museum
Biglerville Historical and Preservation Society
154 W. Hanover St. P.O. Box 656, Biglerville
677-4556
National Civil War Wax Museum
297 Steinwehr Ave., Gettysburg
334-6245
www.e-Gettysburg.cc
*Mason-Dixon Line marker
Mason-Dixon Dairy Farms
Neas House
Hanover Area Historical Society
113 Chestnut St., Hanover
632-3207
Sacred Heart Basilica, “The Conewago Chapel”
Edge Grove, between McSherrystown and New Oxford
*St. Ignatius Loyola Church, Buchanan Valley
Near the site of her kidnapping; statue of Mary Jemison
Schriver House
309 Baltimore St., Gettysburg
337-2800
www.schriverhouse.com
Soldiers National Cemetery
Gettysburg
Site of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Strawberry Hill Nature
1537 Mount Hope Rd., Fairfield
642-5840
Upper Temple
Taylor Trading Post Rd., above Brysonia
Vulture Watching
Devil’s Den, Round Tops
Horse Farms
Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc.
P.O.Box 359, Hanover
637-8931
Founded in 1926 by Lawrence B. Sheppard, Hanover is the perennial leading breeder of
harness racing Standardbreds. Home of Hall of Fame stallion Western Hanover, Big
Towner, Lindy Lane, etc. Stallion and foaling barns located off Rt. 194 east of
Littlestown.
Kosmos Horse Breeders
372 Littlestown Rd., Littlestown
359-4811
Farm manager: Bev Schmidt
Standardbred farm specializing in trotters, home of leading sires SJ’s Photo and Sierra
Kosmos
Xanthus Farms
1225 Bon-Ox Rd., Gettysburg
624-2835
Owner: Barbara Rickline
A leading Pennsylvania breeder of Thoroughbred race horses
Omni Arabians
1384 Bon Ox Road, Gettysburg
624-3817
Owner: Steve Dady
Arabian Show Horses
Swan Lake Stables
228 Flatbush Rd., Littlestown
359-5545
Hunters and Show Jumpers; horse show facility
Plum Run Hunt
454 Swetland Rd., Gettysburg
334-9759
Fox hunting club
Artillery Ridge Camping Resort
610 Taneytown Rd., Gettysburg
334-1288
Trail rides on the Gettysburg Battlefield
Narrows Valley Ranch
350 Shippensburg Rd., Biglerville
677-7333
Trail rides through South Mountain and orchard country
Patterson’s Windmill Carriage Rides
1385 Belmont Rd., Gettysburg
677-6852
Hickory Hollow Farm
219 Crooked Creek Rd., Gettysburg
334-0349
Boarding, lessons and Battlefield trail rides
Goosehaven Farm
335 Roberts Rd., Littlestown
359-7885
Quarter horses, boarding, training, lessons
Darzcastle Farm
Gettysburg
337-0033
Boarding and lessons