Gettysburg in Adams County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Gettysburg Address Memorial and Abraham Lincoln Statue
Photographed By Karl Stelly, July 21, 2014
1. Gettysburg Address Memorial and Abraham Lincoln Statue
Inscription.
Gettysburg Address Memorial and Abraham Lincoln Statue. .
The Gettysburg Address. "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate...we can not consecrate...we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government; of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863 . This historical marker was erected in 2014. It is in Gettysburg in Adams County Pennsylvania
The Gettysburg Address
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate...we can not consecrate...we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before
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us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government; of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Location. 39° 49.723′ N, 77° 13.858′ W. Marker is in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in Adams County. Memorial is on Baltimore Street, on the right when traveling north. Memorial is in front of the Adams County Public Library. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 140 Baltimore Street, Gettysburg PA 17325, United States of America. Touch for directions.
More about this marker. The base containing the inscription of the Gettysburg Address, was placed here in late 2013 or early in 2014. The bronze statue of Lincoln was put in place atop the base in July, 2014.
Photographed By Karl Stelly, July 21, 2014
3. Abraham Lincoln Statue
Photographed By Karl Stelly, July 21, 2014
4. Abraham Lincoln Statue
Photographed By Karl Stelly, July 21, 2014
5. Abraham Lincoln Statue
A closer-in view
Photographed By Karl Stelly, July 21, 2014
6. Abraham Lincoln Statue
A closer-in view
Photographed By Karl Stelly, July 21, 2014
7. Abraham Lincoln Statue
A closer-in view
Photographed By Karl Stelly, July 21, 2014
8. Gettysburg Address Memorial
Reverse side of the base
Provided Through The Generosity of The John H. Pinto and The H. Scott Higgins Families
John H. Pinto
Donna E. de Varona
John David Pinto
Joanna K.E. Pinto
H. Scott Higgins
Linda P. Higgins
H. Parker Higgins
W. Trent Higgins
Elizabeth D. Higgins
Photographed By Karl Stelly, July 21, 2014
9. Abraham Lincoln Statue
Lincoln holding the Gettysburg Address
Photographed By Karl Stelly, July 21, 2014
10. Abraham Lincoln Statue
A closer-in view
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on July 24, 2014, by Karl Stelly of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 850 times since then and 64 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. submitted on July 24, 2014, by Karl Stelly of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.