This Saturday, walking tours will begin of Gettysburg’s most famous authentic Underground Railroad site. First recognized by the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (UGRR NTF) in 2011, the McAllister’s Mill site, just south of town, is part of a nationwide collection of sites that have a verifiable association to the activities of the Underground Railroad. A one-hour walking tour will take you in the very footsteps of many of the freedom seekers who came from Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC as they made their way north to escape slavery.
Tours are given every Saturday at 11 AM from May through August, rain or shine. Hundreds of visitors have taken advantage of this unique opportunity to visit a rarely seen, privately owned part of the battlefield. The walk to the McAllister’s Mill Site from the historical marker at the parking lot is a somewhat strenuous, approximately one-half mile round trip mostly in the woods, and it is led by a corps of experienced and knowledgeable Historic Gettysburg-Adams County (HGAC) tour guides.