Gettysburg Rostrum
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The Gettysburg Rostrum is a brick speaker's stand located at Gettysburg National Cemetery. It was Identified in 1908 as the location of the Gettysburg Address.[1] However, it is now believed the address was given elsewhere.[2] The pavilion was constructed in 1879[3] by P. J. and J. J. Tawney,[4] extended in 1904,[5] and was restored in 2013 for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.[6] The stand has been used by multiple presidents including Theodore Roosevelt (1904), William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge (1928), Herbert Hoover (1930), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934), and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1955).[7]
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References
[edit]- ^ "Knox at Gettysburg" (PDF). The New York Times. May 31, 1908. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
Senator Knox spoke from the famous rostrum built on the spot where President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address in 1863.
- ^ "Where Did Lincoln Stand During the Gettysburg Address?". PBS North Carolina. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
- ^ "Gettysburg Compiler - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "Maintenance by the War Department". www.gdg.org.
- ^ "1904 Reports". Archived from the original on 2011-08-06. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
- ^ "Two Rostrums: Small Structures with Big History and Purpose". www.gwwoinc.com. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
- ^ "Gettysburg National Cemetery Entrance (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
- ^ "Rostrum in Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg" (c. 1903 photograph). EncoreEditions.com. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-11-24.