Antietam National Battlefield by Pawlak Kevin R.;

Author:Pawlak, Kevin R.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: unknown
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2019-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Despite surviving the battle, the iconic Dunker Church could not withstand a May 23, 1921, windstorm. Local grocer Elmer Boyer purchased the plot and all the church’s remaining materials for $800 in May 1925. Boyer stored the remnants of the church in his garage and subsequently sold the land. In 1928, Charles Turner built a lunch stand and gas station on the church’s foundation. (Courtesy of the National Park Service.)

This lone sign (above) and the stone foundation were all that marked the Dunker Church’s location through much of the 1950s. At the time of this photograph, “a chrome and orange house trailer, complete with tall TV antenna, rests semi-permanently within fifty feet of the historic Dunker Church site,” noted a 1959 House of Representatives Interior Committee task force. Embarrassed by the state of the battlefield from a preservation standpoint, the writer quipped, “Tomorrow the ghostly cannonballs may be sailing through scores of living rooms in the Bloody Cornfield and along Bloody Lane.” When the committee filed the report, Antietam National Battlefield consisted of only 183 acres. Today, it encompasses approximately 3,250 acres. (Both, courtesy of the National Park Service.)

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