Greenmount, Pennsylvania, is a populated place

Populated place

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 southwest of the Gettysburg Battlefield

Gettysburg Battlefield

The Gettysburg Battlefield is the area of the July 1–3, 1863, military engagements of the Battle of Gettysburg within and around the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Locations of military engagements extend from the 4 acre site of the first shot & at on the west of the borough, to East...

 at Marsh Creek

Marsh Creek (Monocacy River)

Marsh Creek is a tributary of the Monocacy River in south-central Pennsylvania and north-central Maryland in the United States. Marsh Creek and Rock Creek join below Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Battlefield to form the Monocacy River...

 along the Emmitsburg Road (U.S. Route 15 Business). Neighboring communites are Fairfield

Fairfield, Pennsylvania

Fairfield is a borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 486 at the 2000 census.-History:During the Gettysburg Campaign in the American Civil War, the Battle of Fairfield played an important role in securing the Fairfield pass and the Hagerstown Road, enabling Robert E...

 (west), Gettysburg

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg is a borough that is the county seat, part of the Gettysburg Battlefield, and the eponym for the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. The town hosts visitors to the Gettysburg National Military Park and has 3 institutions of higher learning: Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg College, and...

 (north), Round Top

Round Top, Pennsylvania

Round Top, Pennsylvania, is a populated place near Little Round Top that is notable for 2 Battle of Gettysburg field hospitals, the 1884 Round Top Station, and several battlefield commemorative era attractions for tourists...

 (northeast), Barlow

Barlow, Pennsylvania

Barlow, Pennsylvania is a populated place between the Gettysburg Battlefield and the Mason-Dixon Line at the intersection of Rock Creek and Pennsylvania Route 134. North of the creek on the road summit is the principal facility of the rural community: the 1939 community hall at the fire station...

 (east), Harney MD

Harney, Maryland

Harney is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, USA.-References:...

 (southeast), and Fairplay, Pennsylvania (south).

History

The 1814 Marsh Creek stone arch bridge on the Emmitsburg Road was replaced with a covered bridge before the battle and a subsequent 1921 concrete bridge.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ey1UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NzoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6242,3586387&dq=greenmount+marsh-creek&hl=en An XI Corps (Union Army) division passed through the covered bridge and used the adjacent muddy uphill road to the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg

Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg , was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac...

, but the 2 other divisions detoured from the former crossroad south of Greenmount to the Taneytown Rd

Pennsylvania Route 134

Pennsylvania Route 134 , also called Taneytown Road, is a north–south, two-lane state highway in Pennsylvania. It runs in Cumberland and Mount Joy townships from Gettysburg to the Mason-Dixon Line...

 on the east using the Marsh Creek fording downstream of Greenmount http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NI4lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3fIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4079,86596&dq=little-round-top+tower&hl=en ("Witherow" mill in 1821, "W Myers Grist & Saw Mill" in 1858, "Myer's Mill" ). Upstream of the community and west of the former post office is the 1894 Cunningham Bridge

Bridge in Cumberland Township

The Cunningham Bridge, also known as Bridge in Cumberland Township, is an historic three-section iron bridge near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania that spans west-to-east from Franklin Township to Cumberland Township...

 on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 (closed and planned for demolition). Greenmount hosted the Pennsylvania welcome ceremony for the 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy, which cooked lunch at McCurdy's Schoolhouse to the north.

In August 1922, the wooden Witherow Dam was demolished, and a replacement concrete dam http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ecAlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e_YFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1409,5906558&dq=witherow-dam+park&hl=en and 20 acre (8.1 ha) upstream to the new bridge were used to establish a creekside park http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6Mg9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=KTcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1219,6099085&dq=witherow+park+marsh-creek&hl=en with baseball diamond. The park was named "Marsh Creek Heights" in September for ridges above both banks downstream of the bridge http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e8AlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e_YFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1404,5833359&dq=marsh-creek-heights&hl=en (cottages were subsequently built on the ridges), and a new dam was built in 1926 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=srElAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FPwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4032,1967879&dq=marsh-creek-heights&hl=en (repaired in 1930).http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8rIlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5439,543417&dq=marsh-creek-heights&hl=en The 1934 Greenmount Fire Company was organized at Marsh Creek Heights in Mrs Harvey Miller's stand, in 1939 the "Greenmount basketeers" lost to Gettysburg on the "CCC floor"http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oAgmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F_0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6322,5081149&dq=1939+greenmount+gettysburg&hl=en (the CCC camp was at McMillan Woods)

McMillan Woods

McMillan Woods was used during the Battle of Gettysburg and for Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War, including the WWII POW camp at Gettysburg...

, and in June 1949, a new baseball field with grandstand was built at Marsh Creek Heights.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AlcmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h_8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1483,514716&dq=marsh-creek-heights+greenmount&hl=en