Gettysburg Rostrum
Gettysburg Battlefield venue for historical commemorations
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The Gettysburg Rostrum is a brick speaker's stand located at Gettysburg National Cemetery. It was Identified in 1908 as the location of the Gettysburg Address.[1] However, it is now believed the address was given elsewhere.[2] The pavilion was constructed in 1879[3] by P. J. and J. J. Tawney,[4] extended in 1904,[5] and was restored in 2013 for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.[6] The stand has been used by multiple presidents including Theodore Roosevelt (1904), William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge (1928), Herbert Hoover (1930), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934), and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1955).[7]
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