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Pennsylvania AHGP Information Adams, County, Pennsylvania, lies in the south part of the state. The surface is uneven, and the soil is fertile. It contains 528 square miles, and the waters flow into the Susquehanna and the Potomac. Capital, Gettysburg. There were in 1840, neat cattle 19,343, sheep 19,140, swine 31,583; wheat 216,606 bushels produced, rye 88,561, Indian corn 290,724, buckwheat 5,404, barley 1,666, oats 274,960, potatoes 69,915, 171 pounds silk cocoons; 59 stores, capitol $217,800; 2 lumber yards, capitol 1,070; 3 furnaces, 3 fulling mills, 5 woolen factories, 28 tanneries, 18 distilleries, 2 breweries, 8 potteries, 42 flouring mills, 40 grist mills, 76 saw mills, 4 oil mills, 5 printing offices, 1 bindery, 5 weekly newspapers. Capitol in manufacturing $188,020. 2 colleges, 190 students, 1 academies 42 students, 97 schools, 4,065 scholars. Population 23,044. Gettysburg, Post Borough, Capital, Adams County, Pennsylvania, 35 east north east Harrisburg, 75 West. It is situated at the point where the roads from Philadelphia and Baltimore to Pittsburgh unite. It is on elevated ground, and surrounded by a fine country. The Theological Seminary of the Lutheran Church was established here in 1826. It has 3 professors, 26 students, 130 have completed their education, and it has 7,000 volumes in its libraries. The public buildings are a court house, jail, county offices, an academy, a bank, 6 churches, 1 Presbyterian, 1 Methodist, 2 German Lutheran, 1 Roman Catholic, and one Independent. 3 weekly newspapers, 1 of which is in German. It manufactures carriages extensively. The place is supplied by water in pipes from a neighboring spring. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad will come within a little over 8 ms. of the place, and it is designed to meet it by a railroad from this place. The town has 9 stores, capitol $66,500; 1 furnace, 2 tanneries, 1 brewery, 1 foundry, 1 pottery, 4 printing offices, 3 weekly newspapers, 1 periodical. Capitol in manufacturing $32,900. 2 colleges, 190 students, 1 academy 42 students, 8 schools, 330 scholars. Population 1,908. Read More about States, Counties and towns © Pennsylvania American History and Genealogy Project
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