Pitzer Woods

Pitzer Woods
Woods
Name origin: Emmanual Pitzer
Country United States
State Pennsylvania
Location "Pitzer Woods" marker
 - coordinates
Highest point
 - elevation 30 ft (9.1 m) (prominence)[1][2]
Biome Northern Piedmont ecoregion
Geology Gettysburg-Newark Lowlands, Rossville Diabase dike[1] (50 feet thick)
Historic District
GNMP structure		 Gettysburg Battlefield (75000155)
ID56 [3]
Main article: Seminary Ridge

Pitzer Woods is a Gettysburg Battlefield site used for Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War such as the 1933-7 Camp Renaissance Civilian Conservation Corps camp.

External images
Pitzer Woods (NPS.gov)
Pitzer Farm (WorldFlicks.org)

History

Pitzer Woods was the site of July 1st & 2nd fighting during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.[4] After the CCC camp closed, Fort Indiantown Gap used Pitzer Woods in 1941 and conducted aerial reconnaissance training using the battlefield.[5] During 1943-4, Camp Sharpe used the Pitzer Woods camp ("in a muddy hollow at the bottom of a slanting road")[6] to train soldiers for psychological operations in the European Theater of Operations. In 1946, agricultural laborers from the Bahamas (July 16)[2] and Jamaica were housed on Seminary Ridge. The Pitzer Woods amphitheater was constructed in the 1960s,[7] and the July 3, 1998 James Longstreet memorial was erected at the Pitzer Woods site that had been dedicated in 1941.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site: Geologic Resources Inventory Report" (pdf). Denver, Colorado: National Park Service: Natural Resource Program Center. 2009. http://www.nature.nps.gov/Geology/inventory/publications/reports/gett-eise_gri_rpt_body_print.pdf. Retrieved 2010-02-02. 
  2. ^ "Pitzer School (379593),". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1183984. Retrieved 2010-05-25.  Willoughby Run (1191496)
  3. ^ Cope, Emmor (1896, preserved 1999)) (NPS.gov webpage on List of Classified Structures), Pitzer Woods - Cast Iron Site ID Tablet, United States Department of War marker, http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=&PARK=GETT&STRUCTURE=&SORT=&RECORDNO=194, retrieved 2011-02-11, "1 of 35 Site ID Tablets by War Dept's ... Designer ... Cope, E. B. ... Painted raised letter and border inscription tablet, 2'1"x1'8". Mounted on fluted post, 3' high." 
  4. ^ Pfanz, Harry W (1987). Gettysburg-The Second Day. University of North Carolina Press. p. 114. ISBN 0-8078-1749-X. http://books.google.com/books?id=DmDIlUlKBf8C&PG=114. "Rogers…moved his men back to the shoulder of Big Round Top" 
  5. ^ "Indiantown Units Invade Gettysburg" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Times (Times and News Publishing Company). May 22, 1941. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L4MlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lfUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2640,81719&dq=in-pitzer-woods&hl=en. Retrieved 2010-05-26. 
  6. ^ Edel, Leon. The visitable past: a wartime memoir. p. 22. http://books.google.com/books?id=uLX8CUvZG5cC&pg=PA22. Retrieved 2010-01-31. 
  7. ^ "Pitzer Woods". Virtual Tour - Day Two. National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/tstops/tstd2-07.htm. Retrieved 2010-02-04. 
  8. ^ "Longstreet Memorial Site Dedication set for July 2" (Google News Archive). March 14, 1941. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9YIlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lfUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3611,3563509&dq=south-confederate+gettysburg&hl=en. Retrieved 2010-02-01.  (Fort Story troops conducted the parade.)[1]