Haunted Places in Gettysburg, PA

Explore 11 haunted places in Gettysburg, PA — inns, haunted houses, parks and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Cashtown InnInn · Gettysburg, PABuilt in 1797 as a stagecoach stop on the turnpike west of Gettysburg, the Cashtown Inn took its name from an early innkeeper who accepted only cash.
• Daniel Lady FarmHouse · Gettysburg, PADaniel Lady bought this stone farmhouse and its 146 acres in 1840, and in July 1863 it was swept into the Battle of Gettysburg, serving as a Confederate staging area, headquarters, and field hospital during the fight for Culp's Hill.
• Devil's DenPark · Gettysburg, PADevil's Den is a maze of massive boulders at Gettysburg National Military Park, where on July 2, 1863, roughly 3,100 Confederates under John Bell Hood overwhelmed some 2,400 Union defenders in one of the battle's most savage infantry fights, leaving over 1,800 casualties among the rocks.
• Dobbin House TavernRestaurant · Gettysburg, PAThe oldest standing structure in Gettysburg, this stone house was built around 1776 by the Reverend Alexander Dobbin as a family home and classical school for boys, later sheltering freedom-seekers in a hidden crawl space on the Underground Railroad and serving as a field hospital for both armies after the 1863 battle.
• Farnsworth House InnInn · Gettysburg, PABuilt around 1810 as a log house with an 1833 brick addition, the Farnsworth House sat in the line of fire during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, when Confederate sharpshooters climbed into its attic garret and fired toward Union positions on East Cemetery Hill, leaving more than a hundred bullet scars visible in its south wall.
• Jennie Wade HouseHouse · Gettysburg, PAOn July 3, 1863, twenty-year-old Mary Virginia "Jennie" Wade was kneading bread in her sister's brick home on Baltimore Street when a stray Minié ball passed through two doors and struck her dead, making her the only civilian killed directly by the fighting at Gettysburg.
• Pennsylvania Hall (Gettysburg College)Landmark · Gettysburg, PABuilt in 1837 as the first building of Pennsylvania College, the Greek Revival "Old Dorm" was the largest structure in town when the battle reached it in July 1863.
• Sachs Covered BridgeLandmark · Gettysburg, PASachs Covered Bridge is a 100-foot Town-lattice covered bridge built around 1852, spanning Marsh Creek on the edge of the Gettysburg battlefield.
• Soldiers' National CemeteryCemetery · Gettysburg, PALaid out just four months after the three-day battle of July 1863, the Soldiers' National Cemetery was designed by landscape architect William Saunders as a sweeping semicircle of graves grouped by state and radiating from a central monument, the resting place of more than 3,500 Union dead.
• Spangler's SpringPark · Gettysburg, PASpangler's Spring sits at the south base of Culp's Hill, where some of the fiercest fighting of the Battle of Gettysburg unfolded on July 2-3, 1863, and where soldiers from both armies are said to have drawn water; the War Department capped the spring in stone in 1895.
• Triangular FieldPark · Gettysburg, PAOn July 2, 1863, this small, sloping triangle of stone-walled ground behind Devil's Den became one of the bloodiest patches of Gettysburg's second day, where the 124th New York "Orange Blossoms" charged into Confederate fire before the Union line collapsed.