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| name = Rock Creek | name_native = | name_native_lang = | name_other = | name_etymology = | image = 1907 Taneytown Road.png | image_size = 250 | image_caption = The confluence of Rock and Marsh Creek is north of the Pennsylvania/Maryland border by 12.7 arcseconds[1] ({{circa|1907}} map). | map = Gettysburg Day2 Plan.png | map_size = 250 | map_caption = On July 2, 1863, "Wiedrich's battery [of] six rifled cannon also exchanged fire with one of Jones's batteries on the opposite side of Rock Creek",[https://books.google.com/books?id=wcP3h87K35cC&pg=PA74] and snipers from a home on the East side fired on positions on the West side of the creek (on July 3, Confederates retreated across Rock Creek.) | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_size = 250 | pushpin_map_caption= | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = United States | subdivision_type2 = State | subdivision_name2 = Pennsylvania | subdivision_type3 = Region | subdivision_name3 = Adams County | subdivision_type4 = Townships | subdivision_name4 = West: Cumberland, East: Mount Joy & Straban | subdivision_type5 = Cities | subdivision_name5 = Gettysburg, PA, Barlow, PA | length = | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location= | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg = | discharge1_max = | source1 = Susquehanna drainage divide | source1_location = | source1_coordinates= | source1_elevation = | mouth = Monocacy River | mouth_location = | mouth_coordinates = | mouth_elevation = | progression = | river_system = | basin_size = {{convert|65|sqmi|abbr=on}}[1] | tributaries_left = coordinates shown right-justified | tributaries_right = coordinates shown left-justified | custom_label = Namesakes | custom_data = {{nowrap|Civil War: Rock Creek Rangers}} | extra = }} Rock Creek is an {{convert|18.9|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}[3] tributary of the Monocacy River in south-central Pennsylvania and serves as the border between Cumberland and Mount Joy townships. Rock Creek was used by the Underground Railroad (at McAllister's Mill, "slaves would slosh through the water to throw off the tracking dogs that were pursuing them")[2] and flows near several Gettysburg Battlefield sites, including Culp's Hill, the Benner Hill artillery location, and Barlow Knoll.
Tributaries
See also
References1. ^Watershed Alliance of Adams County. Gettysburg, PA. "Watershed Profile: Rock Creek Watershed." Accessed 2010-08-21. {{Potomac River System}}2. ^{{Cite book |last=Nasby |first=Dolly |year=2005 |title=Gettysburg |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=majmwEcrFPMC&pg=PA100#v=onepage&q&f=false |format=Google Books |isbn=0-7385-3651-2 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |accessdate=2011-03-11 |quote=McAllister's Old Grist Mill … housed an Underground Railroad hideout.}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{Cite web |title=The National Map |url=http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/nhd.html?p=nhd&b=base4&x=-8593051.470416365&y=4849814.028238362&l=13&v= |format=NHD Viewer |work=National Hydrography Dataset |publisher=NationalMap.gov (USGS) |accessdate=2011-07-21}} 4. ^1 2 {{Cite news |date=March 22, 1872 |chapter=Chapter IV |title=Local History: The Wooden Bridges Built by Adams County |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=9qGwjJavaBUC&dat=18720322&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |page=2 (col 6) |accessdate=2011-04-26 |quote=1841.--Contract with John Camp, for a covered bridge of two spans of 60 feet each, across Rock creek, at Horner's mill, on the Taneytown road--dated January 4, 1841; price $2,000. Commissioners, Daniel Diehl, Joseph J. Kuhn and William Douglass. This bridge was swept away by a flood about a year ago, and has since been replaced by another of the same character, on foundations several feet higher.}} 5. ^{{cite book |last=McPherson |first=James M |authorlink=James M. McPherson |title=Atlas of the Civil War}} 6. ^{{Cite map |publisher=John T. Palmer Co |location=Library of Congress, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |year=1916 |title=tbd |cartography= }} 7. ^{{cite news |date=March 15, 1872 |publisher=Gettysburg Compiler |title=Local History: The Wooden Bridges Built by Adams County, Chapter III |location=Adams County Historical Society "Bridges" file}} 8. ^{{cite news |date=November 15, 1802 |publisher=Adams Sentinel |title=Commissioners Office |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rsQlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=m_UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7233,1401912&dq=robert-mccurdy+gettysburg&hl=en |location=Adams County Historical Society "Bridges" file}} 9. ^{{Cite news |date=August 21, 1891 |title=Court Proceedings |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=atk9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=YDcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6084,5210194&dq=jacob-snyder+meteorite&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=New Oxford Item |accessdate=2011-09-11 |quote=The report of viewers to view bridge site over Rock creek at the place where the public highway leading from the Gettysburg and Taneytown road to the Baltimore pike, crosses said creek on the line of the townships of Cumberland and Mountjoy, was confirmed nisi. The report was favorable to a bridge.}} (column 4) 10. ^{{Cite news |date=April 30, 1895 |title=To Bridge Builders |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=x_0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jAAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=5298%2C6484029 |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-09-11}} 11. ^{{Cite news |date=November 16, 1976 |title=County Plans New Rock Creek Bridge |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qpoyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=o-gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4746,3786908&dq=rock-creek-bridge+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Times |accessdate=2011-09-11}} 12. ^1 2 {{cite book |last=Geiselman (née Plank) |first=John Henry |editor=Cleveland, Linda K |title=Reflections |url=http://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/stories/reflections/index.htm |others=Preface: Sanders, Audrey J |accessdate=2008-03-19 |year=1996 |publisher=Brentwood Christian Press|location=Columbus GA |pages=26–7 |quote=in the spring of 1923 they tore down the old covered bridge [and] erected a temporary bridge, up the creek… Mrs Heintzelman was in the [former miller] house busy baking. …carried her up to the…store… the cat was on the sewing machine and the dog on the table. …the oven door open and now the pies were floating around in the kitchen. … The flooding…broke up the temporary bridge. …formed a dam [into] the new bridge}} construction 13. ^1 {{Cite map |publisher=W. Wagner |year=1821 |title=Map of York & Adams Counties |url=https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22D.+Small%22+%22W.+Wagner%22+1821 |cartography=D. Small |accessdate=2011-05-28 }} 14. ^{{Cite news |date=April 4, 1923 |title=Will Ask For Two County Bridges |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9qAlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HvgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1587,5894280&dq=1923+barlow+bridge+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Times |publisher=Times and News Publishing Company |accessdate=2011-04-28 |quote=The present structure at Barlow is a girder bridge of two fifty-five foot spans. It was built more than 70 years ago, according to the Commissioners. At one time 52 years ago, the structure was washed away from its moorings and carried on a much-swollen Rock Creek for a distance of half a mile. It was brought back; a few additions were made and only slight repairs have been made since that time. The bridge now has a roadway 16 feet wide. This is to be increased to 20 feet and all abutments and piles are to be reinforced with concrete}} 15. ^{{Cite news |date=December 22, 1975 |title=Out Of The Past: 150 ears [sic] ago |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a4YlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wfIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3089,785298&dq=black%27s-mill+rock-creek&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Times |accessdate=2011-09-11}} 16. ^{{Cite news |date=January 5, 1946 |title=Half Of Longest Bridge In County Collapses As Ice Breaks Pole Props |url= |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |quote=The breakup of ice on the creek had carried away 10 telephone pole props the highway department had used to bolster the 96 foot section. ... Twenty or more years ago...a concrete pier was built in the middle of the span}} 17. ^{{cite news |last=Stewart |first=Jon |date=August 17, 2008 |title=Straddling the Mason-Dixon line |url=http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/business/display.htm?StoryID=78914 |format=FrederickNewsPost.com webpage |newspaper=Frederick News Post |accessdate=2011-02-09 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711023851/http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/business/display.htm?StoryID=78914 |archivedate=July 11, 2011 |df= }} 18. ^1 {{citation |last=Garmin 530HCx user |authorlink=Garmin#Two-way Radios |date=2009-11-16 |title=GPS Measurement}} at confluence point (Rock Creek west bank and Marsh Creek north bank) at water level & at base of 8 foot embankment) 19. ^{{cite book| isbn = 978-0-8078-2624-9| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CxGRar2-YwUC&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=%22Blocher+Run%22+OR+%22Blocher%27s+Run%22&source=bl&ots=QIJQRZRgF8&sig=9dNUSU7Z6B01MvNbl_mNpNzrRM4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4LQXT_jKIMSKgweE1IWkCw&ved=0CFsQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Blocher%20Run%22%20OR%20%22Blocher%27s%20Run%22&f=false| title = Gettysburg--the first day| publisher = Univ of North Carolina Press| date = 2001-07-01| accessdate = 2012-01-19| pages = 217, 238, 254| author = Harry Wilcox Pfanz}} 20. ^{{cite book| isbn = 978-1-4343-8630-4| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AQia3oD5F5sC&pg=PA174&dq=%22Blocher+Run%22+OR+%22Blocher%27s+Run%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PrYXT_abK5O10AHrkdWsCw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Blocher%20Run%22%20OR%20%22Blocher%27s%20Run%22&f=false| title = The Flying Dutchmen| publisher = Author House| year = 2008| accessdate = 2012-01-19| page = 174| author = Andrew B. Suhrer}} 21. ^{{cite book| isbn = 978-1-56837-275-4| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=z3EVAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Blocher+Run%22+OR+%22Blocher%27s+Run%22&dq=%22Blocher+Run%22+OR+%22Blocher%27s+Run%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PrYXT_abK5O10AHrkdWsCw&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg| title = Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: Reports (v. 1-12, serial 1-12)| publisher = Broadfoot Publishing| year = 1995| accessdate = 2012-01-19| page = 95| author = Janet Hewett}} 22. ^{{cite news| url = http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/gettysburg/articles/barlowsknoll.aspx| title = Barlow's Knoll Revisited| publisher = Military History Online| year = 2001| accessdate = 2012-01-22| quote = Blocher’s Knoll had a distinct disadvantage. Though the swollen Rock Creek itself was a barrier of sorts, the trees along that stream as well as Blocher’s Run would give cover to advancing soldiers. Barlow sought to balance that by sending four companies of the 17th Connecticut across the bridge to the Josiah Benner homestead on the far side of Rock Creek. They were there as skirmishers to blunt the advance of Gordon’s troops and alert their comrades.| page = | author = Charles Teague}} 23. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{Cite report |last=Perles |first=et al |date=September 2006 |title=Vegetation Classification and Mapping at Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site |url=http://www.nps.gov/nero/science/FINAL/GETT-EISE_vegmap/pdf1.pdf |publisher=Northeast Region, National Park Service |id=Technical Report NPS/NER/NRTR--2006/058 |accessdate=2011-06-07}} 24. ^{{Cite gnis|1188630|Stevens Run (1188630)|accessdate=}} 25. ^{{Cite book |last=Balch |first=William Ralston |last2=Butler |first2=John M. |year=1885 |title=The Battle of Gettysburg: An Historical Account |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OmZAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA36 |format=Google Books |location=Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |publisher=Lane S. Hart |accessdate=2011-06-09}} 26. ^1 2 3 {{Cite map |publisher=Julius Bien & Co. Lith. |year=1904 |title=Map of the Battle Field of Gettysburg |url=http://www.simmonsgames.com/research/authors/PAGovtMisc/AtGettysburg/Map.html |cartography=Gettysburg National Park Commission: Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A |location=New York |accessdate=2011-06-07}} 27. ^{{Cite journal |title=[Alexander Dobbin article] |url=http://www.thegettysburgexperience.com/past_issue_headlines/2010/january2010/alexanderdobbin.html |journal=The Gettysburg Experience |accessdate=2011-12-04 |quote=Rock Creek Church…located one mile north of the future town of Gettysburg (located near the junction of Carlisle Street and the Mummasburg Road) |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128213951/http://thegettysburgexperience.com/past_issue_headlines/2010/january2010/alexanderdobbin.html |archivedate=2010-11-28 |df= }} 28. ^{{Cite news |date=June 27, 1899 |title=Public Sale of Real Estate |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FuMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1QAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=7249,6957971&dq=round-top+fissel&hl=en |format=Google News Archives |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-04-26}} 3 : Rivers of Pennsylvania|Rivers of Adams County, Pennsylvania|Tributaries of the Monocacy River |
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