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On August n, 1894, General Lewis, Colonel
Tate, and Colonel Keenan, of North Carolina,
visited the battle-field and located the position of
many of the North Carolina troops. General
Harry Heth, of Longs treet's command, also
visited the field about the same time and located
the position of the two batteries of his division,
from which the first shots were fired that opened
the battle on the morning of July ist. On October
3oth a committee of the Seventh West Virginia
Infantry located their battle-line on the Pfeffer
property, near Ziegler's Grove.
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In 2003 the National Park Service demolished the Home Sweet Home Motel at the southern end of Gettysburg's Steinwehr Avenue strip.
The earliest claimant to the land was a John Potts who was listed as an adjoining property owner in the Rev. Alexander Dobbin's Penn-agent deed dated 1793. Potts retained title to his 156 acres until about 1793, when Cumberland township tax assessors implied he sold it to Stephen Weible. According to the U. S. Direct (or "Glass") Tax of 1798, Weible's property was improved with a two-story log house measuring 26' x 27' and a log barn, 22' x 25'. We suspect that the site of these structures was the location of the Bliss Farm buildings.
During the next 118 years, the motel site parcel change hands ten times: 1804 to James Scott; 1807 to John Murphy; 1808 to Robert Hayes; 1813 to Ralph Lashalls; 1822 to Samuel S. Forney; 1838 sheriff's sale to Joseph Miller; 1851 to James Pierce; 1878 to Beniah Cassatt; and 1882 to Frederick G. Pfeffer.
On April 1, 1911, the widow Mary A. Pfeffer sold a four-acre tract that included motel's future site to William H. Johns, who later laid out lots along the Emmitsburg Road. On September 1, 1927, Johns and his wife Sarah R, sold a 60' x 170' parcel to Earl J. and Margaret L. Waybright for $700, and within a year we suspect the Waybrights built a two-story, brick Prairie-style house.
http://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/gb/property/hsh_motel.htm
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Diverse as Dorr's collection has become, it all started in the basement of his grandparents' Gettysburg home, where he often spent weekends as a child.
Dorr said he discovered boxes of Civil War artifacts that had been collected by his great-great grandfather, Frederick Pfeffer, in the years after the Battle of Gettysburg. Pfeffer farmed part of the land where the infamous Pickett's Charge occurred and regularly scooped up objects during his work.
"You hit a cannon ball with a plow blade, you're going to damage your plow," Dorr said.
According to an 1887 newspaper account that Dorr located, Pfeffer discovered a burial trench with the bodies of seven Confederate soldiers located near what is now the 12th New Jersey monument. Dorr said his great-great grandfather kept buttons and other momentos from the bodies, then re-buried the bones.
"As far as I know, they're still there," he said.
Artifacts from the family collection are among the thousands of others displayed at Dorr's museum.
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Some highlights of my collection include:
* Large collection of documented Gettysburg Civil War relics from The Ziegler/ Pfeffer Farm (Pickett Charge)
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