Guinn Run is a
Pennsylvania stream flowing southeastward in the
Gettysburg National Military Park
The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the park is managed by the National Park Service. The GNMP prope ...
from
Cemetery Hill
Cemetery Hill is a landform on the Gettysburg Battlefield that was the scene of fighting each day of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863). The northernmost part of the Army of the Potomac defensive " fish-hook" line, the hill is gently ...
past the
Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center
The Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center is a Gettysburg National Military Park facility, with a museum about the American Civil War, the 1884 Gettysburg Cyclorama, and the tour center for licensed Battlefield Guides and for buses to see the Getty ...
to
Rock Creek. The stream was bridged by the 1809
Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike Company and in the
commemorative era by the
United States War Department
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when
Hunt
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and
Slocum Avenues were built. A dam was built on Guinn Run to form a pond for
Fantasyland, Pennsylvania, through the 1960s and 1970
See also
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List of rivers of Pennsylvania
This is a list of streams and rivers in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Delaware Bay
Chesapeake Bay
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Rivers of Adams County, Pennsylvania
Rivers of Pennsylvania
Tributaries of the Monocacy River
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