Rehabilitation improved accessibility, added interpretive signage and created gathering areas, helping visitors experience the historic landscape more fully.
Shared Honor in
Preservation
For more than 25 years, we have been working alongside the National Parks at Gettysburg to preserve and protect these sacred grounds and historic landmarks. With your help, the work will continue for generations to come.
2008-Present
National Park Service and Gettysburg Foundation Partnership
The Gettysburg Foundation is the official non-profit partner of Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site. The National Park Service at Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Foundation partner to enhance the preservation and understanding of the heritage and lasting significance of Gettysburg through the Foundation's public outreach and private financial support.
2008-Present
Museum & Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Military Park
Working closely with the National Park Service, raised $103 million to build the Museum & Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Military Park, which is home to the historic Battle of Gettysburg Cyclorama painting and the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War. The Gettysburg Foundation operates the Museum & Visitor Center in partnership with the National Park Service.
2008-2017
Cemetery Ridge and Cemetery Hill Restoration
Raised funds and restored these areas that were key to the Union position in battle, returning them to their 1863 appearabce. Non-historic structure demolition and the return of previously relocated monumnets to their original positions were part of this project achieved in partnership with Gettysburg National Military Park.
2008-2019
George Spangler Farm & Field Hospital Restoration
Three original buildings at the George Spangler Farm are preserved—the summer kitchen, the Pennsylvania bank barn and the stone farmhouse. Non-historic buildings were removed, the apple orchard was replanted and the smokehouse was reconstructed. The Gettysburg Foundation continues to maintain the restored and rehabilitated historic site.
2016
Civil War Museum of Philadelphia Collection
Obtained ownership of the $9.5 million, 3,000-artifact collection of the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia. Before receiving stewardship of the collection, the Gettysburg Foundation in partnership with the Civil War Museum conserved, stored and displayed much of the museum's collection.
2014-2025
Gettysburg Lincoln Railroad Station™
Gettysburg's railroad station served as a hospital and supply center during the Civil War, along with being the arrival point for President Lincoln before delivering the Gettysburg Address. Today, the restored historic site is operated by the Gettysburg Foundation as a history and visitor information stop.
2020-2021
Rupp HouseTM Renovation for Children of Gettysburg 1863®
Renovated the historic Rupp HouseTM to present an all-new educational and interactive experience, Children of Gettysburg 1863®. Designed for young historians, grades K-5, the hands-on history exhibits bring to life the stories of children and young residents of Gettysburg through first-hand accounts and interactive adventures.
2024 At-a-Glance
Rehabilitated
Little Round Top
completed & reopened:
Little Round Top
completed & reopened:
June 24
Annual donation to
National Parks at Gettysburg:
National Parks at Gettysburg:
$472k+
Visitors to Restored
George Spangler Farm & Field Hospital
George Spangler Farm & Field Hospital
3k+
NPS + Foundation
Volunteer hours
contributed:
Volunteer hours
contributed:
43k+
Preservation in Action
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Little Round Top Rehabilitation
Culp’s Hill Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation strengthened interpretation of the Union right flank and the consequential fighting that occurred here during the 1863 battle.
Cemetery Ridge Restoration
Restoration returned the Cemetery Ridge and Cemetery Hill areas of the battlefield that were central to the Union defensive position to their 1863 appearance.
Monument Restoration
With support from the Gettysburg Foundation, Gettysburg National Military Park preserves and maintains the battlefield’s 1,328 monuments, tablets and markers.
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Ever since the battle on July 1-3, 1863, ended, Gettysburg has been a remarkable place of kindness, of remembrance and reconciliation. This began immediately after the battle as local residents cared for the injured soldiers of both armies.
Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
I expect to be deprived of my command; but my men’s lives are too valuable to be sacrificed for popularity. I could not do it.
George Meade
Veterans from both sides of the 1863 battle returned to Gettysburg in 1913 to honor the fallen, reminisce with their friends and extend their hands to their former enemies over fences where they once fired.
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