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Round Top is a populated place in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, near Little Round Top. It is notable for two Battle of Gettysburg hospitals, the 1884 Round Top Station, and several battlefield commemorative era attractions such as Round Top Park and the Round Top Museum. The unincorporated community lies on an elevated area of the north-south Taneytown Road with 3 intersections at Blacksmith Shop Road to the northeast, Wheatfield Road (west from "Roundtop"), and Sachs Road (east from "Sedgwick"). ==History== After an 1808 proposal,〔 (cited by (Geiselman p. 87) )〕 the Taneytown Road was constructed southward from Gettysburg past the east of the Round Tops and by 1858, 2 crossroads had been built to the area with 3 homes (north-to-south: "Geo Bishop", "E. Brickert", & "J. Group") that would become Round Top: Wheatfield Rd on the west across the north foot of Little Round Top to the Emmitsburg Road and Sachs Rd eastward across Rock Creek.〔 In 1884, the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad built a steamtrain railroad to the Round Top Station, which operated until when the branch's abandonment application was filed.() In 1894 on a different railway from the west, the Gettysburg Electric Railway began trolley operations to the station. ;Sedgwick Post Office: After an 1884 refreshment stand opened in a "shanty at the base of Little Round Top", the 1884 house〔 〕 of postmaster Lewis A. Bushman () was announced on July 20, 1886,〔 ((1986 Out of the Past) )〕 as the location for the Sedgwick Post Office, which opened on August 2.() In addition to serving the local area until Rural Free Delivery began, the post office was the transfer point for mail southward on the Taneytown Rd to Horner's Mill near Rock Creek and its subsequent 1890 Barlow post office. Bushman offered the Sedgwick Post Office and Store Room tract for sale with a chopping mill, peach orchard, and warehouse on July 28, 1891;〔 and S. V. Bushman had the merchant license in 1892 () and sold the tract to James F. Rider in 1901.〔 NOTE: This legal notice states an unrecorded 1901 deed "cannot be found", but the position of this 70 perches tract east of the school is comparable to the 44 perches tract east of the school that Hudson & wife offered for sale in 1905 (see "Assignee's Sale").〕 Rider, who near Round Top in 1888 had sold his father's tract of with "lot of fruit and grapes",() operated the Sedgwick store through 1915; and (Charles C. Rider ) offered the tract with 8 room house for sale in 1928.〔 The tract was purchased by the Round Top Museum owners in 1965〔 and was transferred along with the museum to the GNMP in 1971. ;Round Top School: The one-room 1889〔 Round Top School was where the 1892 township citizens group formed to oppose the Gettysburg Electric Railway (cf. United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry. Co.).() Teachers included (William A. Taughinbaugh, ) (Elizabeth Lott, ) (John W. Black (in 1903), ) (Mary Rudisill (1909), ) (Myrtle L. Shealy (1922), ) (Martha Epley (1928) ), Mary L. Leas (1936) & (Robert Ellis Fisher ) (1937, 1938), (Mrs Marion Millhimes (1942) ), (Frances Gilbert (1947) ), and (Mrs. Mary B. Trout (1948). ) The school (closed in 1948 ), was sold in 1952, had renovations planned in 1972,() and was deemed historically "not significant" in 2004. 4 miles E〔 ((The Round Top/Granite Station school closed 1951.) )()〕 of Gettysburg at 2276 York Rd near Granite station|Straban Township, Adams County, PennsylvaniaStraban Township}} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Round Top, Pennsylvania」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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