Round Top Station

Despite the 1882 survey of a rail route from the "H. J., H. and G. Railroad" to Round Top, Pennsylvania,^{[G 1]} for the Round-Top Railroad Company,^[2] the competing G&H RR purchased property from Lewis A. Bushman in April 1884 for excursions^[3] (Little Round Top Park), and their Round Top Branch was instead being constructed in May 1884.^[4] The station warehouse was completed June 21, 1884^[5] (burned February 22/23, 1889;^[6] rebuilt by August 1891);^{[G 2]} and to the rear of the warehouse^[7] in 1894 on a different railway from the west, the Gettysburg Electric Railway began trolley operations^{[G 3]} The railroad-owned property along the north side of Wheatfield Rd extended eastward from the railway and had frontage along the Taneytown Rd at the corner,^[8] site of the 1895 Ollie Rouzer blacksmith shop.^[9] The north-south steamtrain railbed at Round Top became the east edge of the Gettysburg National Military Park (GNMP), which is adjacent to the private tracts along the Taneytown Road; and between 1904 and 1916 a siding was created at the station. The station operated until c. 1942 when the branch's abandonment application was filed.^[10]

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