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North America » United States » Pennsylvania » York August 2nd 2016

Driving into Pensylvania and to Gettysburg and to no accomadation what so ever in Gettysburg, as for summer holidays again. So we found a hotel in York, about 30 min from Gettysburg ideal a very up market a little luxury for us.......Hampton Inn ( no laughing peeps). We were very happy and still close to Gettysburg, to visit the other end of the countys Civil War site as you will remember we saw Vicksburg a few weeks ago. The veiwing of Gettysburg was compleatly different. We used our National park pass again ? and we got a App for the three day war, which went into great details of the war manovers of both South and North sides. We drove around getting out of the car to watch different scenes that were being renacted by in ... read more
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North America » United States » Pennsylvania » York November 1st 2013

Geo: 39.9645, -76.7243 On Wednesday we decided to visit the USS New Jersey for a tour. The ship is on the other side of the Delaware River in New Jersey. We found a train that crosses the Ben Franklin bridge and walked the rest of the way to the ship. That thing is gigantic! We had a great time climbing around the ship. We even got to go inside one of the forward turrets with the 16" guns. One thing I'm glad about is that after seeing all of this history, there is no test! Our hotel notified us that they would be turning off the power at 9:00 AM the next morning. Kind of interesting. They said that a piece of electrical equipment had to be replaced. For our trouble they gave us bottle of ... read more
Huts built by soldiers, Valley Forge
Leaves on the ground
House Washington stayed in




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