Tourism Cares Volunteers Plan April Project in Gettysburg
Tourism Cares, a non-profit travel industry group dedicated to preserving the travel experience for future generations, will bring volunteers together April 16-18 to help restore historic George Spangler Farm on the famous Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pa.
The 80-acre farm, recently purchased by the Gettysburg Foundation to protect the historically significant site from private development, is at the logistical center of the Union battlefield during the three-day Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. Spangler Farm served as a field hospital for both Confederate and Union soldiers. It was here that Confederate Gen. Lewis Armistead, who led the climactic Pickett’s Charge, died of the wounds he suffered on the last day of battle.
Until last year, the site was privately owned and is in need of considerable restoration. Many of the fields, buildings and boundary lines associated with the property are still intact but in poor condition. Volunteers will work to bring back the authenticity of the farm, restoring original buildings, demolishing modern structures, landscaping, trail building, painting, cleaning and much more. The restoration of the property will further the Gettysburg Foundation’s campaign to preserve Gettysburg to give visitors a sense of how the town actually appeared in 1863.
Since 2003, Tourism Cares has helped restore sites across the United States through the Tourism Cares for America Project. The project has brought hundreds of volunteers to New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the tiny mining town of Virginia City, Nev. (781-821-5990, www.tourismcares.org and 800-337-5015, www.gettysburg.travel)
Courtesy of leisuregrouptravel.com
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