Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lincoln's Gettysburg World-Message
Conestoga wagons, before railroads were built, it was a center of travel and traffic. Within eight miles of Mason and Dixon's Line, its connections with the South were as close as those with the North; and it had some of the characteristics Of a southern town. Baltimore was only fifty-two miles distant on the southeast; Washington a little over sixty miles to the south; while Philadelphia was one hundred and four teen to the east, and Harrisburg thirty-six to the northeast.
The surrounding country was not fertile. The red shale rock lay close to the surface of the soil, with muddy roads for an extra ordinarily long period in spring and autumn, and a temperature in summer belonging properly to a much lower latitude.
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