My wife and I must be one percenters as we both climb Big Round Top each time we're in Gettysburg, which is frequent. We love these videos, keep up the great work.
Put that old vetrans path back and make it easier for people, who are perhaps not so fit, to visit big round top. A new tower there would be great! Thanks Tim for all your input. You’re a natural story teller! ❤
About 4 years ago my son and daughter-in-law climbed to the top of Big Round Top using the old path it was cool because we got to see all the monuments going up the hill 😎👍
Myself and a college buddy climbed the closed tower in the spring of 1968 after climbing over the obstruction chains. Have a great photo of LRT from the top.
Great video, Tim! Dad brought us to Gettysburg in 1963. We were only here for one day, but we did make the climb up to the summit of Big Round Top. I remember seeing the tower but we did not climb up it since Dad was not fond of heights. I think there was a cannon on top of the hill also, but my memory may be faulty. Thanks for making the climb on a hot day, Tim.
Thank you Tim. The observatory tower was I bet something. I can believe about tourists being too tired to go up it after the hard trail getting there. The Pennsylvania monuments were awesome. And getting them up there was a fear in itself. Thank you for sharing! 💕💯👊👍
Another great Monuments Monday video, Tim. Always love hearing your stories and your vast amount of Gettysburg knowledge. Hope you have recovered from the heat. 😀
Thanks for the video. Tim correct, natural trails are there for a reason. Those formed by the troops were easiest and a replacement tower on Big Round Top would be nice too.
My great-great-great grandfather's infantry regiment (119th PA Vol) has a monument on Big Round Top (dedication shown at 7:25), but all the evidence I have ever seen shows them nowhere near BRT during the battle and the days after. How did they choose where to erect monuments?
Can remember climbing the tower at least twice as a boy about 10 or 12 years old with very short Aunt Florence And my seriously overweight mom. I don't bthink Mom made it all the way to the top. The view was spectacular. I went back several years later, climbed the hill again, and was very disappointed to find an empty space where the tower was supposed to be.
@@astroboy5137 Plus they've been doing so much work to return a lot of the battlefield areas to what they looked like at the time. A new tower would be completely out of place.
Rebuild the tower!
My wife and I must be one percenters as we both climb Big Round Top each time we're in Gettysburg, which is frequent. We love these videos, keep up the great work.
I am a big fan of Monuments Mondays! Thanks for doing them!
Put that old vetrans path back and make it easier for people, who are perhaps not so fit, to visit big round top. A new tower there would be great!
Thanks Tim for all your input. You’re a natural story teller! ❤
About 4 years ago my son and daughter-in-law climbed to the top of Big Round Top using the old path it was cool because we got to see all the monuments going up the hill 😎👍
Myself and a college buddy climbed the closed tower in the spring of 1968 after climbing over the obstruction chains. Have a great photo of LRT from the top.
Great video, Tim! Dad brought us to Gettysburg in 1963. We were only here for one day, but we did make the climb up to the summit of Big Round Top. I remember seeing the tower but we did not climb up it since Dad was not fond of heights. I think there was a cannon on top of the hill also, but my memory may be faulty. Thanks for making the climb on a hot day, Tim.
Tim very enjoyable as usual. i can remember in Dec of 1968 the tower was still standing. it must of been taken down early in 1969.
Hell yeah Tim 😎
Super nice job Tim.
I am going to attempt to go up to big round top next time I am there.
Should have shot that video today. What a beautiful, cool, dry day.
Thank you Tim. The observatory tower was I bet something. I can believe about tourists being too tired to go up it after the hard trail getting there. The Pennsylvania monuments were awesome. And getting them up there was a fear in itself. Thank you for sharing! 💕💯👊👍
Another great Monuments Monday video, Tim. Always love hearing your stories and your vast amount of Gettysburg knowledge. Hope you have recovered from the heat. 😀
Thanks for the video. Tim correct, natural trails are there for a reason. Those formed by the troops were easiest and a replacement tower on Big Round Top would be nice too.
Thanks Tim
My great-great-great grandfather's infantry regiment (119th PA Vol) has a monument on Big Round Top (dedication shown at 7:25), but all the evidence I have ever seen shows them nowhere near BRT during the battle and the days after. How did they choose where to erect monuments?
Can remember climbing the tower at least twice as a boy about 10 or 12 years old with very short Aunt Florence And my seriously overweight mom. I don't bthink Mom made it all the way to the top. The view was spectacular. I went back several years later, climbed the hill again, and was very disappointed to find an empty space where the tower was supposed to be.
I am going to take Tim’s comment as a challenge to visit Big Round Top! :)
Happy to see on the LRT Vista from the Tower that there was no Valley Of Death Lake.
Looks like the Culps Hill Tower. Built by same company ?
Yes. The tower were built by the Variety Iron Works of Cleveland, Ohio
Don't hate me, but why not build another tower and redo the steps?????
Probably wouldn’t because of the ADA law. (Americans with Disabilities Act)
@@astroboy5137 Plus they've been doing so much work to return a lot of the battlefield areas to what they looked like at the time. A new tower would be completely out of place.
It's not worth it. Not many people would go all the way up to big round top. Even with a tower there.
My 2X Great grandfather was there .. 20th Maine.
After the marriage, the man and wife were put on picket duty on BRT.
New theme music.
666, the number of the feet.