The Gettysburg battlefield itself is the best artifact we have that provides a tangible link to the events of 1863. To date, the Gettysburg Foundation has preserved close to 700 acres of important land related to the Battle of Gettysburg:
- Home Sweet Home motel – last commercial site on fields of “Pickett’s Charge”
- First Shot Marker site
- Hoffman farm, East Cavalry Field
- 20th Maine Company B marker site
- Weikert farm, Taneytown Road
- Blocher farm, Barlow’s Knoll (modern intrusion removed)
- Shields house, Mummasburg Road (modern intrusion removed)
- Baltimore Pike residences (2) (modern intrusions removed)
- Shea Farm easement (East Cavalry Field)
- Black Horse Tavern easement
- Kump property purchase
- Baltimore Pike corridor—several properties protected
- George Spangler Farm
- Big Round Top—45 acres within the Historic District adjacent to Gettysburg National Military Park boundary
- LeVan property easement—61 acres
