This page is linked from Adams County History and Our Adams Countians. It gives a few images of Adams County, Gettysburg in particular, over the period of time from its near founding up to 1910.

In this page are images or links to images involving:

Below are two maps of our area of Gettysburg at the time of the battle, one of which is presented with two views. Both are from the Library of Congress and are zzoomable at source.  The first is more general, the second offers a close up detailing homes or future sites of homes of our ancestors.
The first:

Map of the Gettysburg Battlefield [this is a closeup of a zoomable image from the "american memory" collection of the Library of Congress.

These closeups , show the "Meals Estate" very near to the childhood home of the writer and at the northern region of Gettysburg, near Howard Ave and at the intersection of Mummasburg Road north of the now present tennis courts and playing fields by a margin.  Next to it is the area encompassed by Broadway in Gettysburg [Home of our later Swope family] and how it pertained to the battle occuring before their residence at this locale. [Broadway was not settled until after the war and its land encompassed an area of active battle in the first day of Gettysburg's three day  battle] This then shows the map of Gabriel Meals parents home at the time of the battle, and his descendant Swope future home site very near the Meals farm locale.

The Centinal - Extra - February 26, 1812. Commissioners'-Office. Adams County, Pennsylvania. Agreeably to an act of assembly entitled. "An act to raise county rates and levies." requiring the commissioner of the respective counties to publish a statement of the receipts and expenditures, yearly ... [Gettysburg, 1812].