Jenny Wade Birth Home
Location submitted by: sdonley on 06/11/2019
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242 Baltimore St.
Gettysburg, PA 17325
Open to the public: Yes
Lat: 39.827502
Lon: -77.230898
PANICd#: 2035
Publication date: 01/04/2025
This house was built circa. 1820 and is the home where Jenny Wade was born.
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History: 1
Stories: 1
Claims: 3
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History
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In this modest weatherboard house, constructed ca. 1820, Mary Virginia “Jennie” Wade was born on May 21, 1843. Wade, the second of six children of James and Mary Filby Wade, spent her childhood here, attending local schools and helping with her father’s tailor shop. In 1854, the family moved to a new house on Breckenridge Street.
During the Battle, “Jennie” and her mother were visiting the home of sister Georgia Wade McClellan (now 548 Baltimore Street). There, on the morning of July 3, 1863, while working in the kitchen, Jennie was killed by an unknown Confederate sharpshooter, becoming Gettysburg’s only civilian fatality of the fighting.
In the early 1920’s, John White Johnston, a Rochester, New York businessman who had become fascinated with the Wade story, purchased this house and the Breckenridge Street house. On May 21, 1922 he dedicated a bronze plaque here in a ceremony attended by Georgia Wade McClellan.
Added by: sdonley on 01/04/2025
DB#:625
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https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=8169
Stories & Folklore
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We visited this location in 2018 when the building housed the Reid’s Orchard and Winery. While we were there, we asked the employee if they ever had any paranormal experiences and she was more then happy to explain all of the experiences she had. She told us that there was a room upstairs that had strange noises coming from it. She also experience cold sports on occasions and the feeling that she was being watched. She also told us that she experienced seeing a woman looking out of the window on the second floor when she looked back at the building after closing up at night.
Added by: sdonley on 01/04/2025 DB#: 1607
Source(s):
Employee Interview.
Paranormal Claims
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| Claim # | Added | Added By | Claim |
| 3416 | 01/04/2025 | sdonley | Cold spots have been reported. |
| 3417 | 01/04/2025 | sdonley | The apparition of a woman has been seen looking out of the windows on the top floor. |
| 3418 | 01/04/2025 | sdonley | Strange noises have been reported coming form the upstairs. |
Additional Resources
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| Jennie Wade's Birth House - Ghost Walk Gettysburg
Added: 12/16/2024 By: sdonley |
Information stating the Jenny Wade's father returns to this house looking for his daughter. |
| Room discovered at Jennie Wade birthplace | Local News | gettysburgtimes.com
Added: 12/16/2024 By: sdonley |
A small space was recently discovered at the birthplace of Jennie Wade in Gettysburg Borough. |
| Jennie Wade Birthplace Historical Marker
Added: 12/16/2024 By: sdonley |
In this modest weatherboard house, constructed ca. 1820, Mary Virginia "Jennie" Wade was born on May 21, 1843. (A historical marker located in Gettysburg in Adams County, Pennsylvania.) |
| Room discovered at Jennie Wade birthplace
Added: 01/04/2025 By: sdonley |
A small space was recently discovered at the birthplace of Jennie Wade in Gettysburg Borough. |
| Secret room found at historic home in Gettysburg
Added: 01/04/2025 By: sdonley |
A secret room was found at the birthplace of Jennie Wade, the only civilian known to have died during the Battle of Gettysburg. |
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