Cumberland Township
Cumberland Township is a township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 7,031 at the 2020 census. In 1863, the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg took place mainly in Cumberland Township, which surrounds the borough of Gettysburg on three sides.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 7,030 residents
- Description: township in Adams County, Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Cumberland Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania” and “Township of Cumberland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gettysburg National Cemetery and Cemetery Hill.
Gettysburg National Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Henryhartley, Public domain.
Gettysburg National Cemetery, originally called Soldiers' National Cemetery, is a United States national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, created for Union army casualties sustained in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
Cemetery Hill
Peak
Cemetery Hill is a landform on the Gettysburg Battlefield that was the scene of fighting each day of the Battle of Gettysburg. The northernmost part of the Army of the Potomac defensive "fish-hook" line, the hill is gently sloped and provided a site for American Civil War artillery.
Big Round Top
Peak
Big Round Top is a boulder-strewn hill notable as the topographic high point of the Gettysburg Battlefield and for 1863 American Civil War engagements for which Medals of Honor were awarded.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gettysburg and Little Round Top.
Gettysburg
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gettysburg, in Adams County in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, goes down in history as the battlefield in the Civil War where, despite terrible tragedy and loss of life, there was hope for the Union.
Little Round Top
Locality
Little Round Top is the smaller of two rocky hills south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—the companion to the adjacent, taller hill named Big Round Top. It was the site of an unsuccessful assault by Confederate troops against the Union left flank on July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, during the American Civil War.
Devil’s Den
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Devil's Den is a boulder-strewn hill on the south end of Houck's Ridge at Gettysburg Battlefield, used by artillery and sharpshooters on the second day of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
Cumberland Township
- Category: township of Pennsylvania
- Location: Adams County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Vietnamese—“Cumberland Township” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Cumberland Township”
- French: “canton de Cumberland”
- French: “Cumberland Township”
- German: “Cumberland Township”
- Italian: “Cumberland”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Cumberland (condado de Adams, Pensilvania)”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Cumberland”
- Ukrainian: “Камберленд Тауншип”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Cumberland, Quận Adams, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Cumberland”
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