Plum Run (Rock Creek)
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Plum Run (Rock Creek) | |
Bloody Run | |
River | |
Plum Run generally flows west of both the Taneytown Road and Rock Creek.
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Country | United States |
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State | Pennsylvania |
Region | Adams County |
Township | Cumberland |
Valley sections (N-to-S) |
Codori Farm Trostle Farm Valley of Death Slaughter Pen … |
Elevation | 387 ft (118 m) [1] |
Source | Field of Pickett's Charge |
Battle engagements |
Hood's Assault Sickles' retreat Crawford's charge Slaughter Pen Wells' charge |
USGS feature ID | 1185250 [1] |
Namesake | "Plum Run line" of McGilvery's artillery [2] |
Plum Run (Rock Run in 1821)[3] 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, as well as the postbellum Crawford's Glen and Tipton Park. 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]
Plum Run course | |||||
Location | Description | Coordinates | |||
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headpoints | triple pt (Stevens & Guinn Runs)[4]
N of Codori house & barn[5] |
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crossing | (historical) Emmitsburg Rd[6] | ||||
perennial flow |
USGS map Google Maps |
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bridge | United States Avenue | ||||
crossing | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
confluence | run | ||||
culvert[7]:'08 | Wheatfield Road | ||||
culvert | Crawford Avenue | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||
confluence | run from Weikert Hill | ||||
bridge | Warren Avenue | ||||
bridge | for Slaughter Pen pedestrians | ||||
site | 1894-1917 trolley bridge | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||
confluence | Rose Run | ||||
run | confluence | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||
bridge | along horse trail fording | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||
bridge | Confederate Avenue (1937)[2] | ||||
confluence | Heagy's Woods Run[8] | [relative location tbd] | |||
boundary | National Park/Township | ||||
confluence | run from Ridge Road[6] | ||||
bridge | Knight Road | ||||
bridge | US 15 | ||||
bridge | (private) | ||||
confluence | run from north | ||||
confluence | run from west | ||||
bridge | PA 134 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||
mouth | Rock Creek (Monocacy River) | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Plum Run (1184118) NOTE: The USGS coordinates for the Plum Run source (Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.) are inaccurately near the Rose Farm.
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- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (shows "Lower Wheatfield Road")
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. "On September 9, 1907, a contract was made with M. & T. E. Farrell to grade and pike a portion of three additional public roads connecting avenues, viz: The Harrisburg road from the borough line of Gettysburg to Rock Creek bridge, 2,872 feet, 18 feet wide; the Emmitsburg road from the borough line to the peach orchard, 8,263 feet, 18 feet wide, and the Wheatfield road from Sedgwick avenue to Sickles avenue, 3,400 feet, 18 feet wide. This contract includes the draining and one large culvert over Plum Run."
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