Settlement Type: | populated place |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Pennsylvania |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Franklin |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Washington |
Pushpin Map: | Pennsylvania |
Coordinates: | 39.7381°N -77.4714°W |
Established Title: | Established by |
Established Date: | 1875 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 250 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation Ft: | 1335 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 17214 |
Area Code: | 717 |
Blank Name: | Census code |
Blank Info: | 50600 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS ID |
Blank1 Info: | 1181451 |
Blank2 Name: | NRHP # |
Blank2 Info: | 76001639 http://landmarkhunter.com/188517-monterey-historic-district/ |
Monterey, Pennsylvania, is an unincorporated community which was added to the USGS Geographic Names Information System on August 2, 1979.[2] After the site was surveyed for the never-completed Tapeworm Railroad, the summit community was settled on the Emmitsburg & Waynesboro Turnpike https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wcQlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=m_UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7196,2316920&dq=waynesboro-turnpike+monterey&hl=en east of the Nichol's Gap Road intersection near the Toll Gate and Brown's Spring[3]
East Cemetery Hill Tablet 6 of 9
Army of the Potomac
July 4, 1863
First and Second Brigade, First Cavalry Division marched from
Westminster The Reserve Brigade First Cavalry Division from
Gettysburg en route to Frederick Second Brigade Second Cavalry
Division from Westminster via Emmitsburg to Monterey The Third
Brigade Second Cavalry Division from Gettysburg to Hunterstown and the
Third Cavalry Division from Gettysburg via Emmitsburg to Monterey
Fight at Monterey Gap Pennsylvania
Skirmishes at Fairfield Gap Pennsylvania and near Emmitsburg Md
As with the Pen Mar Park to the south, Monterey was the site of numerous resort facilities such as the Clermont House, 1887 Monterey Hotel,https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=C6JCAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xLkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3295,5698069&dq=monterey+blue-ridge+-the-sun&hl=en the Monterey House,http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/history/area/chapter-xxxv.txt the Monterey Inn, the Monterey Academy,https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3v0lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qvIFAAAAIBAJ&dq=barlow-happenings&pg=1574%2C7570127 and the Monterey Country Club. The community's post office established in the late 19th century was named Charmian (another PA post office already was named Monterey), and the Charmian station of the Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway was established after the Western Extension was laid in 1888–1889 (cf. Monterey Station in 1872).[3]
As a mountain community near the intersection of the turnpike and the Nichol's Gap Road, the Monterey area was an 1863 American Civil War site through which both Federal and Confederate forces maneuvered during the Gettysburg Campaign[4] (e.g., Buford's Cavalry en route to a June 29/30 Fountaindale bivouac)https://books.google.com/books?id=hK5kYSmGAXkC&dq=%22Monterey+Springs%22+pennsylvania&pg=PA39 and a military engagement during the retreat from Gettysburg was at the Monterey location. On July 5, prisoners of war encamped at https://books.google.com/books?id=qJ5AowA2oQIC&dq=%22Monterey+Springs%22+pennsylvania&pg=PA80 and east of the site,https://books.google.com/books?id=7UudzOuUVlAC&q=Monterey+Springs&pg=PA56 and "two soldiers of the Fourth Carolina Cavalry" were buried "near the gatehouse of the Monterey Springs".https://books.google.com/books?id=c3moUepIA8gC&dq=gatehouse+%22Monterey+Springs%22&pg=PT419