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History of Antietam National Cemetery (Gates from Antietam National Cemetery)

Collection Name

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Photographs of the Cemetery

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ItemID
wcac304
IDEntry
1265
Creator
Lori Ann Allen, 1986.
Rights
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Buildings Survey of Historic American Engineering Record, Survey number HABS MD-936-B.
Date
1986
Collection Location
Library of Congress
Coverage
Washington County, Md; 1862-1869.
Body

Robert Wood & Company were responsible for construction of the fence and gates, which were in place in 1866. The wrought iron fence cost six dollars a foot, and a gateway cost $880. "It is substantial as well as ornamental, and its entire length is six hundred and six feet, eight inches without the gateway, which latter is twenty-six feet in width—-sufficiently capacious to admit vehicles to pass each other in their ingress and egress."


Drawing from Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record - Survey number HABS MD-936-B. National Park Service. Delineator - Lori Ann Allen, 1986.