Lydia Leister Farm - House or Barn (Meade's HQ) Underground Railroad we have been working hard

we have been working hard to make sure we are able to continue our long tradition of offering educational programming to our community and our visitors

The Gettysburg Campaign and its culminating battle have generated more than their share of analysis and published works

It describes a journey of both spiritual and historic significance as revealed through previously undisclosed 150-year-old diaries that recount Herman Sidney Cook's odyssey

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Lydia Leister Farm - House or Barn (Meade's HQ) Underground Railroad we have been working hardThe widow Lydia Leister bought her small 9 acre Taneytown Road farm just south of Gettysburg in 1861. Her hard work quickly made the farm self sufficient. At the outbreak of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 3, 1863, commanding Union Army General George Gordon Meade commandeered the farm to serve as his headquarters due to its centrally located position. Following the Battle of Gettysburg Lydia returned home to find her small house damaged from