Chambersburg Pike Marker - Gettysburg, PA
N 39° 50.139 W 077° 14.815
18S E 307735 N 4411931
Just outside Lincoln Square and on the way to the battlefields is this highway marker for the Lincoln Highway.
Waymark Code: WMBPBK
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 06/09/2011
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520 feet away from Lee's headquarters on Chambersburg Pike, aka the Lincoln Highway is this marker. The sign is on the right or north side of the road if traveling West away from downtown Gettysburg (Lincoln Square). The newer, oblong rectangular signs have replaced the older concrete markers, most of which have made their way into private collections. There is nothing around as it is in the 'fields part of Gettysburg. Your best bet is to carefully pull off the side of the road into a dirt patch.
This is Civil War town to be sure but they also bill themselves as a Lincoln Highway town as well as evident by all the markers. These oblong, rectangular markers have been popping up all over the place in PA. This one has the tell tale red and blue stripe over a white field. A gold portrait of a profiled Lincoln circumscribed in a circle is reminiscent of the penny. The word Lincoln Highway are written at the bottom of the sign. The stake is painted red at top and blue on the bottom, and isjammed into the ground right next to the road.