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{{Main|Seminary Ridge}} '''Pitzer Woods''' is a Gettysburg Battlefield site used for Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War such as the 1933–37 Camp Renaissance Civilian Conservation Corps camp. {{ external media |align= |width=20em | image1 = [https://web.archive.org/web/20061212055813/http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/tstops/tstd2-07.htm Pitzer Woods (NPS.gov)] | image2 = [http://wiki.worldflicks.org/pitzer_farm.html#coords=(39.81814535,-77.2546792)&z=18 Pitzer Farm (WorldFlicks.org)] }}
==History== '''Pitzer Woods''' was the site of July 1st & 2nd fighting during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pfanz |first=Harry W |year=1987 |title=Gettysburg-The Second Day |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DmDIlUlKBf8C&PG=114 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=0-8078-1749-X |page=114 |quote=''Rogers…moved his men back to the shoulder of '''Big Round Top'''''}}</ref> After the CCC camp closed, Fort Indiantown Gap used Pitzer Woods in 1941 and conducted aerial reconnaissance training using the battlefield.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 22, 1941 |title=Indiantown Units Invade Gettysburg |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L4MlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lfUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2640,81719&dq=in-pitzer-woods&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |publisher=Times and News Publishing Company |newspaper=Gettysburg Times |access-date=2010-05-26}}</ref> During 1943–4, Camp Sharpe used the Pitzer Woods camp ("''in a muddy hollow at the bottom of a slanting road''")<ref name=Edel>
{{cite book |last=Edel |first=Leon |author-link=Leon Edel |title=The visitable past: a wartime memoir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uLX8CUvZG5cC&pg=PA22 |page=22 |access-date=2010-01-31}}</ref> to train soldiers for psychological operations in the European Theater of Operations. In 1946, agricultural laborers from the Bahamas (July 16)[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hHglAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BfMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6050,4884545&dq=prisoner-of-war+camp+gettysburg&hl=en] and Jamaica were housed on Seminary Ridge.<!--SOURCE: several of the reference news articles--> The Pitzer Woods amphitheater was constructed in the 1960s,<ref name=Pitzer>{{cite web |title=Pitzer Woods |url=http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/tstops/tstd2-07.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061212055813/http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/tstops/tstd2-07.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 12, 2006 |work=Virtual Tour - Day Two |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=2010-02-04}}</ref> and the July 3, 1998 James Longstreet memorial was erected at the Pitzer Woods site that had been dedicated in 1941.<ref>{{cite web |date=March 14, 1941 |title=Longstreet Memorial Site Dedication set for July 2 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9YIlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lfUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3611,3563509&dq=south-confederate+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |access-date=2010-02-01}} (Fort Story troops conducted the parade.)[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I-8lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6502,1325794&dq=in-pitzer-woods&hl=en]</ref>
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Category:Forests of Pennsylvania