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Gettysburg Springs Hotel
The Gettysburg Springs Hotel was a Gettysburg Battlefield tourist site in the Battle of Gettysburg, First Day, area. The hotel was on the east side of Herr Ridge at the western terminus of the Gettysburg Spring Railroad and near the Katalysine Springs (originally (Lithia Springs) )() source of "Gettysburg Katalysine Water" sold for (therapeutic use. ) ()
==History==
Incorporated by the Commonwealth as the Battle House and Mineral Springs Watering Place Company at Gettysburg on April 12, 1867 (Robert G. McCurdy, President), the company leased in November 1867 in addition to the original Harmon land. The "(Watering Place Hotel" )〔 construction started in 1868,() furnishings were acquired from New York by June 1, 1869;() and the hotel opened on June 28.() A lease dispute in April 1869 between the proprietor and the New York and Gettysburg Spring Company resulted in a "forcible entry" at the bottling plant,() but the conflict was resolved in time for the hotel to host the distinguished visitors of the first Gettysburg reunion organized that first summer by attorney David McConaughy. Charges at the seasonal opening on May 1, 1870, were $3/day ($15/week)() and in 1872, the image of the "Springs Hotel -- Cupola" directional plate was: "''Entered according to Act of Congress 1872, by John B. Bachelder, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington''".〔 (also available at (HathiTrust.org) )〕 The hotel hosted Battle of Gettysburg officers at the hotel in 1882 for John B. Bachelder's survey of the battlefield. The Gettysburg Springs & Hotel Co was organized in 1893 for the .()
The masonry dam for the hotel lake north of the Old Mill Road was blown up in 1895, and the 1900 eminent domain jury for ''United States v. Five Tracts of land'' was formed〔 April 20, 1904: "P. M. Bikle…John A. Himes, Kerr Lott…Wm. A. Martin, James F. Bell…John C. Group…and David Maring…have been appointed a jury of viewers to condemn".()〕 to acquire 4 Reynolds Grove tracts of the Land Improvement Co. and the Cunningham Grove tract at Round Top (the hotel company went bankrupt in 1901.)〔 In 1902 the Gettysburg Electric Railway planned to extend westward from Washington Street along the former horse railway to the hotel.(), but on December 24, 1904, the receivers of the Gettysburg Springs & Hotel Co transferred "''four certain parcels of land aggregating''" east of the hotel to the United States Department of War〔
Deed tbd 〕 which allowed the railbed/wagon road on McPherson Ridge's west slope to be finished (telfordized) as the commemorative era Meredith Avenue () (the Pitzer Run section of the railroad no longer has Springs Av). Additional Gettysburg Springs & Hotel tracts were transferred to the War Dept on June 21, 1907, of and on December 18, 1913, of , including one near the field of Pickett's Charge); and after private occupancy beginning in 1913,() the hotel was demolished by a December 1917 fire. The privately owned area west of Willoughby Run became part of the 1948 Gettysburg Country Club golf course (#2 tee near the springs, which were sealed)() until purchased by the National Park Service in 2011.
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