Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . poo1ToLWi£h£ Th^D«ThiS TS fr°m VYlb!eS Woods °- the Th side shows ,he Wheat Field fam™» •> *e history of Getty8burK-the Whirl-. THE COMMISSIONS WORK. One of the important features of the work of the National Park Commission was the construction of five steel ob-servation towers at prominent places on the field from which visitors can have a perfect view of all the important places. Since July, 1893, they have con-structed twenty-one miles of Tel
Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . poo1ToLWi£h£ Th^D«ThiS TS fr°m VYlb!eS Woods °- the Th side shows ,he Wheat Field fam™» •> *e history of Getty8burK-the Whirl-. THE COMMISSIONS WORK. One of the important features of the work of the National Park Commission was the construction of five steel ob-servation towers at prominent places on the field from which visitors can have a perfect view of all the important places. Since July, 1893, they have con-structed twenty-one miles of Telford avenues, fourteen miles of avenue fencing, built of gaspipe rails and locust posts; about thirteen miles of post and railfencing; fifteen miles of paved gutters. Six miles of stone walls have been rebuilt at locations where stone walls existed at the time of the battle; 340 can-non have been mounted; 501 iron tablets have been erected, and 17,100 trees have been planted. These trees are planted on ground that was covered withtrees at the time of the battle. The Government now owns about 1670 acres of land on the battlefield. The rows of iron tablets give the itineraries of botharmies from June 29th to July 7th, inclusive.
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectgettysb, bookyear1906
