The Hanover Area Historical Society will host a special free event for the public at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 18, in Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania. Entitled "Lincoln visits Hanover Junction", the event will commemorate the date of President Abraham Lincoln's journey by train to consecrate the cemetery grounds in Gettysburg. The program will feature Civil War accounts of the role the Hanover Junction rail depot played in troop movements, telegraph dispatch, and American history.
President Lincoln, portrayed by James Hayney, will speak to the crowd promptly at 5 p.m.
There will be a presentation on the Confederate cavalrymen (White's Comanches) who raided the Northern Central Railway route, destroying bridges and cutting telegraph lines.
Hanover Junction was a major telegraph dispatch station during the war, and Terry Koller will portray the head telegraph operator stationed at the depot. Koller will explain his duties and the history of the Hanover Branch Railroad which connected Gettysburg, Hanover, and Jefferson to the larger Northern Central Railway that ran from Baltimore to Harrisburg.
Historian and author Dennis Brandt will talk about the 87th Pennsylvania Regiment (Co. C) soldiers from the York County area who guarded bridges in Pennsylvania and Maryland during the Civil War.
Mrs Roark was interested in the storis about Lincoln at HJ.
I looked it up on the internet. Wonderful web site.
However, I could find no physicakl descrption. I may have missed it.
We would like to drive out and visit Hanver Junction, so the question remains -- "Where is HJ?"
Many thanks,
C L. Roark
Hello Mr. Roark,
Depending upon where you are coming from, the easiest way to find Hanover Junction is to take U.S. Route 30 from York or Gettysburg. Turn south on PA Route 616 toward New Salem. Continue through New Salem toward Seven Valleys. Just before the village, you will see the road leading off to the right at a Y-shaped intersection that leads to Hanover Junction, PA.