The Gettysburg Electric Railway and the Birth of Battlefield Preservation
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During the spring and summer of 1893, the forces of memorialization and commercialization came into direct conflict on the fields of Gettysburg. Would the battlefield become a memorial for those who fought here or just an amusement park for the benefit of investors? Join ACHS Historian Tim Smith as he discusses the complicated and controversial story of the Gettysburg Trolley.