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Gettysburg is a borough and the county seat of Adams County in southern Pennsylvania, just north of the Maryland border.

Gettysburg was laid out in 1786 by James Gettys next to his father's tavern and farmstead, became the county seat when Adams County was created in 1800, and was incorporated as a borough on March 10, 1806.

Gettysburg grew up at the confluence of ten major roads of its era, making it a natural crossroads and trading center for travelers between south-central Pennsylvania and Baltimore.

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought in and around the borough from July 1 to 3, 1863, was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, with more than 51,000 casualties, and is widely viewed as the war's turning point.

President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, where about 3,600 Union soldiers from the battle are buried.

Gettysburg National Military Park, which preserves the battlefield at roughly 9 square miles, surrounds much of the borough, and the Eisenhower National Historic Site — President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farm, established as a historic site in 1967 — adjoins the park.

Gettysburg College, founded in 1832 as Pennsylvania College, is regarded as the oldest Lutheran college in America, and its campus sits adjacent to the battlefield; it enrolled about 2,100 students in the fall of 2025.

The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg was founded in 1826 on the ridge that became famous as Seminary Ridge during the battle, six years before the college opened.

Gettysburg's population was 7,106 at the 2020 census.

Gettysburg has only about 2,450 households despite its population of over 7,000, because so many residents are college students living in group housing, and the average household holds just about 2.1 people.