Gettysburg (locally /ˈɡɛtɪsbÉœË rÉ¡/ (listen); non-locally
/ˈɡɛtizbÉœË rÉ¡/) is a borough and the county seat of Adams County
in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The Battle of Gettysburg (1863) and
President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address are named for this
town. The town hosts visitors to the Gettysburg National Battlefield
in the Gettysburg National Military Park. As of the 2010 census, the
borough had a population of 7,620 people.1761: Samuel Gettys, from
Ireland, settled at the Shippensburg-Baltimore and
Philadelphia-Pittsburgh crossroads and established a tavern where
soldiers and traders came to rest.1761: Samuel Gettys, from Ireland,
settled at the Shippensburg-Baltimore and Philadelphia-Pittsburgh
crossroads and established a tavern where soldiers and traders came to
rest.1786: The borough boundary was established, with the Dobbin House
tavern (est.1776) sitting in the south-west.1790: A "Strabane"
township location between "Hunter's and Getty's towns" was planned to
become the Adams county seat. One year later "Revd. Alexander Dobbin
and David Moore Sr. were appointed trustees for the county of Adams to
erect public buildings in…Gettysburg." Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Top Movies & Young Movies