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

[Bob George]

Keith:
  That was the house that we saw through the monsoon during Roland's tour.

         Regards
         Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "keith mackenzie" <bluzdad at yahoo.com>
To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: GDG- Fw: Historic Biggs Farmhouse Damaged by Fire 
atGettysburgNational Military Park


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>
> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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