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National Soldiers' Orphans' Homestead

Gettysburg's 'haunted orphanage' — a home for war orphans that turned into a house of punishment.

777 Baltimore Street

Gettysburg, PA

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The record

After the war, this Baltimore Street property became the National Soldiers' Orphans' Homestead, a home founded to care for children orphaned by the Civil War — its poignant purpose grew directly out of the battle fought at its doorstep. The site later became notorious for the alleged cruelty of one of its matrons toward the children in her charge, a documented chapter of institutional abuse. That history feeds its reputation on the town's ghost circuit, where reported activity centers on the children once housed here; visitors describe unsettling feelings in the cellar in particular.

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Reported phenomena

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  • Reported · Child spirits, doors slamming or locking on their own, and flickering lights
  • Reported · Apparitions of Civil War soldiers connected to the building's field-hospital use
  • Reported · The cellar ('The Pit'/'The Dungeon') cited as one of the most reportedly active spots

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