Plum Run (Rock Creek tributary)

Plum Run (Rock Run in 1821)^[1] is a Pennsylvania stream flowing southward from the Gettysburg Battlefield between the Gettys-Black Divide on the east and on the west, the drainage divide for Pitzer Run, Biesecker Run, Willoughby Run, and Marsh Creek.

Plum Run (Rock Creek tributary) Bloody Run
Plum Run generally flows west of both the Taneytown Road and Rock Creek.
Location
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
Region	Adams County
Township	Cumberland
Physical characteristics
Source	Field of Pickett's Charge
Basin features
Namesake	"Plum Run line" of McGilvery's artillery

History

The Plum Run Valley was the location of Battle of Gettysburg, Second Day, and Third Day military engagements.

In 1972, the Slaughter Pen comfort station was temporarily closed after Youth Conservation Corps participants of Camp Eisenhower discovered fecal pollution in Plum Run.

Plum Run course
Location	Description	Coordinates
headpoints	triple pt (Stevens & Guinn Runs)[2] N of Codori house & barn[3]	39.813151°N 77.23556°W / 39.813151; -77.23556 39.81178°N 77.24021°W / 39.81178; -77.24021
crossing	(historical) Emmitsburg Rd[4]
perennial flow	USGS map Google Maps	38.80919°N 77.23832°W / 38.80919; -77.23832[3] 39.808219°N 77.238892°W / 39.808219; -77.238892[5]
bridge	United States Avenue
	crossing	39.801295°N 77.241134°W / 39.801295; -77.241134
confluence	run
culvert[6]: '08	Wheatfield Road
culvert	Crawford Avenue	39.796271°N 77.238661°W / 39.796271; -77.238661
confluence	run from Weikert Hill
bridge	Warren Avenue
bridge	for Slaughter Pen pedestrians
site	1894-1917 trolley bridge	39.790167°N 77.243446°W / 39.790167; -77.243446
confluence	Rose Run
run	confluence	39.78926°N 77.245211°W / 39.78926; -77.245211
bridge	along horse trail fording	39.788244°N 77.245694°W / 39.788244; -77.245694
bridge	Confederate Avenue (1937)
confluence	Heagy's Woods Run[7]	[relative location tbd]
boundary	National Park/Township
confluence	run from Ridge Road[4]
bridge	Knight Road
bridge	US 15
bridge	(private)
confluence	run from north
confluence	run from west
bridge	PA 134	39.765039°N 77.231998°W / 39.765039; -77.231998 (Plum Run bridge)
mouth	Rock Creek (Monocacy River)	39.758969°N 77.226806°W / 39.758969; -77.226806 (mouth of Plum Run)

See also

• List of rivers of Pennsylvania

References

1. Map of York & Adams Counties (Map). Cartography by D. Small. W. Wagner. 1821. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
2. "Funding goal marks start of Gettysburg restoration" (Google News Archive). Reading Eagle. June 6, 2005. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
3. "The National Map". National Hydrography Dataset. NationalMap.gov (USGS). Archived from the original (NHD Viewer) on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
4. Cope, Emmor (1904). Blueprint 825 (Map). (shows "Lower Wheatfield Road")
5. [satellite view] (Google Maps) (Map). Retrieved 15 November 2011.
6. Gettysburg National Military Park Commission. "An Introduction to the Annual Reports of the Gettysburg National Military Park Commission to the Secretary of War". The Gettysburg Commission Reports. Gettysburg, PA: War Department. "On September 9, 1907, a contract was made with M. & T. E. Farrell to grade and pike a portion of three additional public roads connecting avenues, viz: The Harrisburg road from the borough line of Gettysburg to Rock Creek bridge, 2,872 feet, 18 feet wide; the Emmitsburg road from the borough line to the peach orchard, 8,263 feet, 18 feet wide, and the Wheatfield road from Sedgwick avenue to Sickles avenue, 3,400 feet, 18 feet wide. This contract includes the draining and one large culvert over Plum Run."
7. Perles, S. J.; G. S. Podniesinski; W. A. Millinor; L. A. Sneddon (September 2006). Vegetation Classification and Mapping at GettysburgNational Military Park and Eisenhower National HistoricSite (PDF) (Report). National Park Service Northeast Region. p. 25. Retrieved 2011-10-28. In the southcentral portion of Gettysburg National MilitaryPark, Heagy's Woods Run joins Plum Run,