NPS moving forward with Country Club plans

The former Gettysburg Country Club has belonged to the National Park Service for just five months, but plans are already underway to restore the land to its Civil War appearance of 1863.

However, significant alterations to the property, where the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg was fought in 1863, won't occur until after Gettysburg National Military Park completes a "Cultural Landscape Report."

According to GNMP Superintendent Bob Kirby, the park intends to raze four buildings that previously served as maintenance or storage sheds for a nine-hole golf course. The park is in the process of awarding a demolition contract to remove a golf cart barn, a rest-room building made of concrete block, a wooden shelter, and a small masonry structure used as a well-house.

They will likely be razed over the next month....