Hallowed Ground

New at Reason: Damon Root looks at how Gettysburg became a cash cow even before it was a sacred site.

Comments

[Jean Bart]

I have to admit to loving my visit to Gettysburg; indeed, I ran up little round top with gear on to get a taste for what the 20th Maine experienced as it flew to meet the 15th Alabama.

[Isaac Bartram]

One of my family's heroes made his name in this battle (Col. Washington Roebling, before he went on to build the Brooklyn Bridge). My mother spent a good part of her childhood in Washington Roebling's mansion in Trenton, NJ.

[shanep]

Alot of our nation's areas that later became National Parks started out as sight-seeing and tourist destinations.
Many of the places we are told are national treasures were so before the national government even got involved.