Gettys-Black divide


The Gettys-Black divide is the primary drainage divide of Cumberland Township, [Adams County, Pennsylvania]; extending from the mouth of Stevens [Creek (Rock Creek)|Stevens Creek] southward past Samuel Gettys' 1761 tavern ~7 miles to the mouth of Plum Run at the dam site for Robert Black's 1798 Mill. From a ridge within the Gettysburg borough, the divide extends southward across several strategic features of the Gettysburg Battlefield:
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The divide descends the east slope of Big Round Top and passes north of a drainage, then extends south-southeast across farm fields near the Taneytown Road to Rock Creek at the unincorporated community of Template:Adams [County, Pennsylvania|Barlow, Pennsylvania].