CAMPAIGN TO PRESERVE GETTYSBURG.
Ensuring The Future of Our Nation's History.
The Campaign to Preserve Gettysburg. Ensuring The Future Of Our Nation’s History.
The events that occurred at Gettysburg shaped the country as we know it. Our goal at the Gettysburg
Foundation is to help provide for the preservation of this important site and every story that
developed here. Thanks to a public-private partnership between the National Park Service and the
Gettysburg Foundation, that goal is being reached.
With the new Gettysburg Museum of the Civil War, we are ensuring that future generations will learn from what happened here. We also are helping to protect and display Gettysburg National Military Park’s collection of objects, artifacts and documents. We are rehabilitating the battlefield, conserving the renowned Gettysburg Cyclorama painting and conducting countless other preservation projects.
As part of our efforts, we are acquiring additional battlefield land to expand the park’s buffer area, and providing a “decompression zone” to give visitors a better sense of what Gettysburg was like 140 years ago. We also are creating a permanent endowment to support ongoing annual building maintenance and preservation of the park’s collection.
Thanks to our teams’ determination and the support of our fellow citizens, we are making Gettysburg a place that educates and inspires new generations of visitors -- a place that honors America by promoting a better understanding of how the struggles of 1863 relate to the challenges we face today. As President Lincoln so nobly stated, "It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."
