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If this is your first time in my site, welcome! Chateau Du Mer is a beach house and a Conference Hall. The beach house could now accommodate 10 guests, six in the main floor and four in the first floor( air conditioned room). In addition, you can now reserve your vacation dates ahead and pay the rental fees via PayPal. I hope to see you soon in Marinduque- Home of the Morions and Heart of the Philippines. The photo above was taken during our first Garden Wedding ceremony at The Chateau Du Mer Gardens. I have also posted my favorite Filipino and American dishes and recipes in this site. Some of the photos and videos on this site, I do not own, but I have no intention on the infringement of your copyrights!

Marinduque Mainland from Tres Reyes Islands

Marinduque Mainland from Tres Reyes Islands
View of Marinduque Mainland from Tres Reyes Islands-Click on photo to link to Marinduque Awaits You

Sunday, February 14, 2021

Our Visit to the Gettysburg National Military Park and Museum

This is the last ( 10 of 10) on my series of Art Museums and Historical Places that Macrine(RIP) and I had visited during our younger years. Today is also Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day to All My Faithful Readers and Followers.

Macrine (RIP) and I had visited the Gettysburg National Military Park and Museum when were still residing in Maryland from 1990 to 2002. It was a whole day affair. I remember it with awe as I relieve the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. I was teary-eyed as I reflect the 3-day Battle and hearing once again President Lincoln Gettysburg address.  It is a must visit if you are a history enthusiast.



The Gettysburg National Military Park(GNMP) protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. It is located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the park is managed by the National Park Service

The GNMP properties include most of the Gettysburg Battlefield, many of the battle's support areas during the battle (e.g., reserve, supply, and hospital locations), and several other non-battle areas associated with the battle's "aftermath and commemoration", including the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Many of the park's 43,000 American Civil War artifacts are displayed in the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center.

The park has more wooded land than in 1863, and the National Park Service(NPS) has an ongoing program to restore portions of the battlefield to their historical non-wooded conditions, as well as to replant historic orchards and woodlots that are now missing. In addition, the NPS is restoring native plants to meadows and edges of roads, to encourage habitat as well as provide for historic landscape. There are also considerably more roads and facilities for the benefit of tourists visiting the battlefield park.

Attendance in 2018 was 950,000 a decline of 86% since 1970. The five major Civil War battlefield parks operated by the National Park Service (Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, Chickamauga/Chattanooga and Vicksburg) had a combined 3.1 million visitors in 2018, down 70% from 10.2 million in 1970.

The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.

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