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The Gettysburg Museum of History is located in the home of its owner and curator, Erik L. Dorr, who spent his entire life collecting American historic artifacts. Mr. Dorr is the 4th generation of a family whose farm was the location of the famous Pickett’s Charge in 1863.

After the farm was incorporated into the Battlefield Park, the family moved to the home where Mr. Dorr lives today, and the home also hosts the Gettysburg Museum of History. The museum’s collection contains not only artifacts collected by Mr. Dorr’s ancestors after the Battle of Gettysburg, but also artifacts that cover the entire American history from its founding to today. This private collection, which rivals in its size and quality many governmental and private museums, is today open to the public as part of the Gettysburg Museum of History, free of charge, as part of community service.

219 Baltimore St, Gettysburg, PA 17325, 717-337-2035

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