Cashtown Inn, Civil War inn in Adams County, Pennsylvania.
Cashtown Inn is a two-story brick building on Old Chambersburg Pike in Pennsylvania, about 8 miles (13 km) west of Gettysburg, offering guest rooms, a restaurant, and a bar. It sits at a crossroads that once served as a stop along one of the main travel routes through southern Pennsylvania.
In the days before the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate generals used the building as a command post while their troops camped nearby. After the three-day battle, it became a care point for wounded soldiers from both sides.
The inn sits along a road that once connected traveling merchants between towns, and that sense of passage still shapes the place today. Guests eat and sleep in rooms that have served travelers for nearly two centuries.
The inn is easy to reach by car along Old Chambersburg Pike, one of the main roads west of Gettysburg. Visitors exploring the battlefield area will find it a convenient base, as most of the main sites are close by.
The building gets its name from an early owner who had no small change and asked guests to pay in cash only, giving rise to the nickname Cashtown. This small detail from the early 1800s ended up naming both the inn and the surrounding village.
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