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Plum Run (Rock Creek tributary)
1907 Taneytown Road.png
Plum Run generally flows west of both the Taneytown Road and Rock Creek.
Other name(s) Bloody Run
Country United States
State Pennsylvania
Region Adams County
Township Cumberland
Physical characteristics
Main source Field of Pickett's Charge
Basin features
Namesake "Plum Run line" of McGilvery's artillery

Plum Run (Rock Run in 1821) is a Pennsylvania stream flowing southward from the Gettysburg Battlefield between the Gettys-Black Divide on the east and on the west, the drainage divide for Pitzer Run, Biesecker Run, Willoughby Run, and Marsh Creek. The Plum Run Valley was the location of Battle of Gettysburg, Second Day, and Third Day military engagements, as well as the postbellum Crawford's Glen and Tipton Park. In 1972, the Slaughter Pen comfort station was temporarily closed after Youth Conservation Corps participants of Camp Eisenhower discovered fecal pollution in Plum Run.[1]

Plum Run course
Location Description Coordinates
headpoints triple pt (Stevens & Guinn Runs)

N of Codori house & barn

39°48′47″N 77°14′08″W / 39.813151°N 77.23556°W / 39.813151; -77.23556

39°48′42″N 77°14′25″W / 39.81178°N 77.24021°W / 39.81178; -77.24021

crossing (historical) Emmitsburg Rd
perennial
flow
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38°48′33″N 77°14′18″W / 38.80919°N 77.23832°W / 38.80919; -77.23832

39°48′30″N 77°14′20″W / 39.808219°N 77.238892°W / 39.808219; -77.238892

bridge United States Avenue
crossing 39°48′05″N 77°14′28″W / 39.801295°N 77.241134°W / 39.801295; -77.241134
confluence run
culvert Wheatfield Road
culvert Crawford Avenue 39°47′47″N 77°14′19″W / 39.796271°N 77.238661°W / 39.796271; -77.238661
confluence run from Weikert Hill
bridge Warren Avenue
bridge for Slaughter Pen pedestrians
site 1894-1917 trolley bridge 39°47′25″N 77°14′36″W / 39.790167°N 77.243446°W / 39.790167; -77.243446
confluence Rose Run
run confluence 39°47′21″N 77°14′43″W / 39.78926°N 77.245211°W / 39.78926; -77.245211
bridge along horse trail fording 39°47′18″N 77°14′44″W / 39.788244°N 77.245694°W / 39.788244; -77.245694
bridge Confederate Avenue (1937)[2]
confluence Heagy's Woods Run [relative location tbd]
boundary National Park/Township
confluence run from Ridge Road
bridge Knight Road
bridge US 15.svg US 15
bridge (private)
confluence run from north
confluence run from west
bridge PA-134.svg PA 134 39°45′54″N 77°13′55″W / 39.765039°N 77.231998°W / 39.765039; -77.231998 (Plum Run bridge)
mouth Rock Creek (Monocacy River) 39°45′32″N 77°13′37″W / 39.758969°N 77.226806°W / 39.758969; -77.226806 (mouth of Plum Run)
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