Oversight Hearing on Gettysburg National Military Park General Management Plan and Proposed Visitors Center: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, February 11, 1999, Washington, DC. |
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Adams County Admission Revenue Admissions Taxes Baltimore Pike Artillery Battle of Gettysburg Borough of Gettysburg Cafeteria Capita Cemetery Cemetery Hill Chairman Combined Visitor Center commercial Committee Culp's Hill Cumberland Township Current Dollars GMP Cyclorama Building Dollars GMP Alternatives Eastern National Bookstore Economic Impact Electric Map Estimated Pro Forma Federal Forma Operating Projection GALVIN Gettysburg Battlefield Gettysburg Film Gettysburg Film Theater Gettysburg National Military Gettysburg NMP GNMP guns HANSEN hearing interpretive issue July Kinsley proposal Kinzie's Knoll land LeVan tract Licensed Battlefield Guide Management Consultants Management Consultants Table Management Plan Estimated MARTIN Economic Research Mid-Range Attendance million National Military Park National Park Service Net Operating Income NMP General Management NPCA OFFICE OF THOMAS Operating Income park's Parks at Gettysburg percent Pickett's Charge Pike Artillery Line preservation proposed Visitor Center Research and Management retail ROMERO-BARCELÓ Stable Year 2007 Store Subcommittee Venue Visitor Center Stable visitor spending
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Page 114 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Page 93 - And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them...
Page 97 - Congress, or even take possession of the field of battle, in the name and for the benefit of all the citizens of the country, for the present and for the future ? Such a use seems necessarily not only a public use, but one so closely connectcd with the welfare of the republic itself as to be within the powers granted Congress by the Constitution for the purpose of protecting and preserving the whole country.
Page 81 - MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you again for the opportunity to testify before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality July 15, 2004, regarding the "Status of the US Refining Industry.
Page 97 - Can it not erect the monuments provided for by these acts of Congress, or even take possession of the field of battle, in the name and for the benefit of all the citizens of the country, for the present and for the future ? Such a use seems necessarily not only a public use, but one so closely connected...
Page 81 - WALTER L. POWELL, PRESIDENT, GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, on behalf of our Board of Directors, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak to the Committee this afternoon. My name is Walter Powell, and I am President of the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association. By profession I am an historian who has lectured and written widely on the subject of Gettysburg, and I live with my wife and two children in a house just...
Page 28 - In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass ; bodies disappear ; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls.
Page 67 - ... of Johnson's attack the 20th Connecticut, whose position was directly in front of and below Rugg and Kinzie's guns, held their position for five hours, fighting off and on. Lt. Col. William Wooster reported: The enemy were endeavoring to advance through the woods, so as to turn the right flank . . . and were met and successfully resisted by my regiment. In this position I was enabled to repeatedly communicate to the colonel commanding the brigade and the general commanding the division the movements...
Page 74 - ... (Hamilton, NY: Edmonston Publishing, Inc.), 231. 14 Ibid; see also Report of Lieut. Eugene A. Bancroft, Battery G, Fourth US Artillery, July 28, 1863, United States War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies 70 volumes in 1 28 parts (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901), Series 1, Vol.