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43 Cards in this Set
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1st Professional Guide |
Sergeant William David Holtzworth |
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Monumentation Era |
1870's to 1880's |
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Spring 1884 |
Completion of Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad |
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1894 |
Gettysburg Electric Railroad |
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1864 |
Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association/ Last meeting was May 22, 1895 |
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1895 |
Gettysburg National Military Park run by the War Department |
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1933 |
National Park Service took over |
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Rule # 1 by Gettysburg National Park Commission |
1st written evidence of the requirement that anyone intending to conduct tours of the field had to receive authorization to do so by the commissioners. No one could conduct tours without this authorization: the commission established fees for such tours that could not be exceeded. |
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1913 Park Commissioner |
John Page Nicholson |
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1913 Assistant Secretary of War |
Henry S. Breckinridge |
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September and October 1915 |
91 guides took written test |
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1st class license |
Scored high enough on test |
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2nd and 3rd class license |
Scored less than set percentage, and were required to complete additional study of a Guide School and retake exam to earn an acceptable score. |
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Modern Era of Guiding |
October 17, 1915/Unlicensed individuals were arrested for conducting tours after that date.
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First Badge |
9 Pointed Guide Badge |
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First Fee |
3 Dollars |
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Requested 1st Uniform |
J. Warren Gilbert |
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October 24, 1916 |
Battlefield Guide Association Established to serve as the guides' official representative. |
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Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides |
New name in the early 1980's of the Battlefield Guide Association. |
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First Guide Supervisor |
William Storrick |
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1929 |
Last test administered by the War Department and retirement of the original guide uniform to a more military one in khaki |
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Park Superintendent E. E. Davis |
Retired 9 pointed star badge and replaced it with a numbered wreath cap badge. |
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1930 |
Due to great depression twister tours were offered. They were one hour short tours for a reduced price. This tour survived into the mid 1960's. |
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August 10, 1933 |
FDR transferred War Department Military parks to National Park Service. |
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Spring of 1937 |
West and South end stations opened. |
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1936 |
Self Guided Auto Tour Route began |
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1942 |
Required 12 part training session taught by Park Historian Dr. Frederick Tilberg and mandatory retesting of all existing guides. |
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Civil Service Employees |
Guides overwhelmingly voted to remain independent. |
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August 15, 1951 |
First NPS guide examination/partial oral exam in presence of Dr. Tilberg |
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1950's |
1st fee increase since turn of century |
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1957 |
Park Historians Dr. Tilberg, Dr. Henry Pfanz and COl. Jacob Sheads and educator, Park Ranger Historian and LBG organized Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable to give guides a broader knowledge of the entire war. |
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1962 |
Opening of the Richard Neutra designed Cyclorama Building. NPS began to encourage guides to work there as a primary location for tour distribution. |
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Guide Stations/The North End, South End and East Cemetery Hill Stations |
Declared closed for tours |
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Lincoln Square and West End Guide Station |
Up through mid to late 1980's some guides were permitted to continue soliciting their own tours from outlying sites.
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1975 |
All newly licensed guides could work only out of the Visitor Center. |
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1968 |
1st female guide Barbara Schutt |
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Nora Saum Supervisory National Park Technician |
Implemented full oral exam tour |
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1972 |
NPS purchased the National Museum and Electric Map from the Rosensteel Family |
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1976 |
Guide uniform changed to blue/gray still in use today |
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1990 |
75th Anniversary of licensed guiding the guide badge was reintroduced |
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1990 and 1993 |
Ken Burns and Gettysburg released guide force increased to 140. |
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1995 |
30 individuals were tested and licensed the most in a single year |
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Vicksburg Guides |
Licensed by NPS and operated by the Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau |