Gettysburg Address - Location

Location

Tourist parking is located across Taneytown Road from the Soldiers' National Cemetery, which is closed to vehicular traffic, and a cross-walk funnels visitors to the Taneytown Road entrance. Outside the Cemetery and within sight of the cross-walk, a historical marker proclaims:

"Nearby, Nov. 19, 1863, in dedicating the National Cemetery, Abraham Lincoln gave the address which he had written in Washington and revised after his arrival at Gettysburg the evening of November 18."

Directly inside the Taneytown Road entrance are located the Rostrum and the Lincoln Address Memorial. Neither of these is located within 300 yards of any of the five (or more) claimed locations for the dedicatory platform.