The Wills House

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $9.95
Original Price: $15.95

Stock #:435009
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Gettysburg
State: Pennsylvania (PA)
County: Adams
Publisher: W.H. Tipton
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
The Gettysburg Address delivered Nov. 19, 1863 by President Lincoln at consecration of Soldiers' National Cemetery was written near the window marked with a star. Hon. David Wills )to whom national cemeteries owe their origins) stands upon the steps; the R.G. Harper house joins the Wills house to the north; Mr. Harper's printing office is net. Here was printed "Adams Sentinal" the first weekly paper issued in Adams County.

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