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1903. "Spangler's Spring, Gettysburg, Pa." Forty years after that pivotal battle. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
THE STRIFE OF BROTHERS IS PAST
The spring is still there but the whole area has been transformed. Now it's just out in the open, in a grassy spot beside the road. It no longer is nestled in a peaceful wooded enclave like the 1903 photo shows.
Oh, and the National Park Service has deemed it unsafe to allow spring water to flow anymore. I wonder if it was capped off or diverted somewhere else?
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