Farnsworth House Inn
Built as a log house around 1810 with a brick addition in 1833, the building sat squarely 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 still visible in its south wall today. After the battle it served as a field hospital, and in 1972 the Shultz family restored it as an inn and named it for Union Brigadier General Elon J. Farnsworth. Guests and staff have long reported a house that never fully emptied: the sudden scent of roses or perfume drifting through still rooms, a phantom cat heard at odd hours, and the impression of unseen presences brushing past or settling at the foot of the bed. The inn is said to hold more than a dozen spirits, among them a wartime nurse and a small boy who lingers in the upstairs rooms. Whatever the truth of the count, the Farnsworth House has been one of Gettysburg's most widely told haunted places for decades.
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