Английская Википедия:Black Horse Tavern (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)

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The Black Horse Tavern (Bream's Tavern) is a large stone residence at the Pennsylvania Route 116 intersection with a north-south road at Marsh Creek. The tavern was used as for approximately 65 years[1] beforeШаблон:Specify 1909, the mill tract rented by William E. Myers was used as a Battle of Gettysburg field hospital.

History

Built in 1812[2] along the 1791 Nichol's Gap Road (Шаблон:Circa Fairfield and Gettysburg Turnpike),[3] "Francis Bream purchased the farm and tavern in 1843." During the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg the intersection was a maneuver point for Confederate artillery[4] (the Hagerstown Road forded Marsh Creek).[5] A stone arch roadway bridge was subsequently built at the tavern[6] and in 1927, the highway near the structure was rerouted from over Bream's Hill to an excavation of the new Fairfield Road with a new bridge at "Plank's".[7]

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Шаблон:National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania