GDG- Fw: Historic Biggs Farmhouse Damaged by Fire at GettysburgNational Military Park

[keith mackenzie]

Was that the house we stopped at with the mule in the yard when Roland Maust took us on the 2nd corps hospital swim during the Mud Muster?
  K.

"Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle at hp.com> wrote:
  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


Gettysburg Engineering wrote:
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> That is the house, most commonly known as the Peter Fry farm. It's most
> recent fame is Sparky the mule roaming the fields. I drove by at lunch and
> it is swarming with GNMP workers repairing the damage. Part of the roof
> next to the Taneytown Road was burnt off. It was a wood shingle roof.
> There did not appear to be any outer damage to the house except the roof,
> although there is water damage inside. The yard was filled with items they
> were moving out of the house from water damage. It is always sad to seen
> someone's home damaged or destroyed. The sprinkler system which was
> installed just a few years ago was well worth it.
>
> Regards
>
> Dean Shultz
> 

Thanks Dean - hopefully things weren't /too bad/ inside the house...

Alan
>> Does anyone know if this is the building is on the west side of the
>> Taneytown Road, and has a couple of red sheds and a red barn to the
>> north of it? (It has a run leading towards Rock Creek just south of the
>> buildings.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alan
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