People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — FOR A NATIONAL PARK. [ARTICLE]

FOR A NATIONAL PARK.

Gen. Sickles Wants the Government to Acquire 4,000 Acres at Gettysburg. New York, Aug. 28.—Gen. Daniel E. Sickles has a scheme for the creation of a grand national park which will include the battlefield and other historic points of interest at Gettysburg. The purchase of something like 4.000 acres in and around Gettysburg is embraced in the plan. The government already owns several hundred acres at the scene of trie decisive battle of the war, ana Gen, Sickles proposes to acquire abopt 2,500 acres more.