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Guided Historic Walking Tours

Gettysburg Hotel, One Lincoln Square, Gettysburg, PA 17325
717-339-6161
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Ranked #8 of 32 activities in Gettysburg
Type: Historic Walking Areas
Owner description: VARIOUS ROUTES, SPECIALTY & CUSTOM TOURS AVAILABLE Guided walking tours in downtown Gettysburg by Licensed Town Guides are 90 minutes. The tours... more » Owner description: VARIOUS ROUTES, SPECIALTY & CUSTOM TOURS AVAILABLE Guided walking tours in downtown Gettysburg by Licensed Town Guides are 90 minutes. The tours provide stories from diary entries, personal accounts, letters, drawings, and photographs with stories of Tillie Pierce, Henrietta Shriver, the canon known as “Penelope”, Mary Virginia Wade, Sarah Broadhead, Mary McAllister, Elizabeth Gilbert, John Burns and many, many others. « less
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Fort Worth TX
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 2 February 2013

We took a guided night ghost tour that departed from the building next to The Shriver House (tickets were purchased there as well). Our tour guide had a gas lamp and took us down the street towards the outskirts of town and stopped at places along the way to tell of events and give historical data of the Civil War... More

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Allentown, Pennsylvania
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 30 December 2012

We took the cellar and attic tour and it was AWESOME! It was fun and our guide was informative and entertaining. The building itself is a neat piece of history. We got a great picture of many orbs outside the house. Even if you don't believe in ghosts, the Farnsworth tour is worth the value for the historical part of... More

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Baltimore, Maryland
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 21 November 2012

In December 2011 my husband and I took a walking ghost tour. It was interesting. i'm not sure we would do it again, but the hosts were informative and believable.

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Pelham, New Hampshire, United States
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 5 November 2012

Fun tours at the Farnsworth House - especially the cellar - and with the Mason Dixon Paranormal Society...Gettysburg at night is a hoot!

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Tralee, Ireland
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 31 October 2012

They don`t judge if you bring a naggin in your faggin on tour, hilarious professional lads. see ye in Copps. xoxox ps this is Marion Fossett with an o

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Westminster, Md
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 18 October 2012

Again, every American should experience Gettysburg. The walking tour is well done, so informative if a bit long. Perhaps not for ADHD folks, the taped auto tour would be better.

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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 30 September 2012 via mobile

We did the 3pm guided tour with Kevin. We were lucky to be the only ones on the tour so were much more involved. It really complemented the knowledge we had gained driving round the whole park. Very interesting to learn how individual citizens of the town had been affected in the battle. And the importance of Gettysburg to other... More

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Rochester, New York
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 16 September 2012

We went on several of the free guided walking tours the park service makes available to the visiting public. These are absolutely worth your time! Our historian guides were amazing, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, interesting ... I was so impressed and pleased that these were available for one and all! I wish we could have experienced all of the talks.

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Tiffin, Ohio
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 24 August 2012

I just love the downtown area of Gettysburg. It too has a plenty of history and this is the perfect way to learn about it. Also, we had a great tour guide. She was friendly, knowledgeable, and made the tour fun. Try the 10am tour, we were the only ones there making it quite nice.

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Danbury, Connecticut
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 1 August 2012

This was really fun and informative. We highly recommend this part of the trip to take in downtown Gettysburg. What a quaint and historic town. We wish we had stayed longer b/c there is just so much to see and do!

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