Plum Run (Rock Creek tributary) Bloody Run | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Pennsylvania |
Region | Adams County |
Township | Cumberland |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Field of Pickett's Charge |
Basin features | |
Namesake | "Plum Run line" of McGilvery's artillery |
Plum Run (Rock Run in 1821) [1] is a Pennsylvania stream flowing southward from the Gettysburg Battlefield between the Gettys-Black Divide on the east and on the west, the drainage divide for Pitzer Run, Biesecker Run, Willoughby Run, and Marsh Creek.
The Plum Run Valley was the location of Battle of Gettysburg, Second Day, and Third Day military engagements.
In 1972, the Slaughter Pen comfort station was temporarily closed after Youth Conservation Corps participants of Camp Eisenhower discovered fecal pollution in Plum Run. [1]
In the southcentral portion of Gettysburg National MilitaryPark, Heagy's Woods Run joins Plum Run,
Plum Run (Rock Creek tributary) Bloody Run | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Pennsylvania |
Region | Adams County |
Township | Cumberland |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Field of Pickett's Charge |
Basin features | |
Namesake | "Plum Run line" of McGilvery's artillery |
Plum Run (Rock Run in 1821) [1] is a Pennsylvania stream flowing southward from the Gettysburg Battlefield between the Gettys-Black Divide on the east and on the west, the drainage divide for Pitzer Run, Biesecker Run, Willoughby Run, and Marsh Creek.
The Plum Run Valley was the location of Battle of Gettysburg, Second Day, and Third Day military engagements.
In 1972, the Slaughter Pen comfort station was temporarily closed after Youth Conservation Corps participants of Camp Eisenhower discovered fecal pollution in Plum Run. [1]
In the southcentral portion of Gettysburg National MilitaryPark, Heagy's Woods Run joins Plum Run,