Farnsworth House Inn
Built 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. Afterward it served as a field hospital, and in 1972 the Shultz family restored it as an inn named for Union Brigadier General Elon J. Farnsworth.
Guests describe a house that never emptied: roses scenting still rooms, a phantom cat at odd hours, a presence at the foot of the bed. It is said to hold more than a dozen spirits, among them a wartime nurse and a boy upstairs.
📍 401 Baltimore Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325, Gettysburg, PA · Get directions