 (the hotel opened on June 28).By December 24, 1904, the receivers of the Gettysburg Springs & Hotel Co transferred ""four certain parcels of land aggregating"" east of the hotel to the United States Department of War which allowed the railbed/wagon road on McPherson Ridge's west slope to be telfordized as the commemorative era Meredith Avenue (the Pitzer Run section of the railroad no longer has Springs Av).Stones of the railway's Willoughby Run bridge were still visible in the stream in 1991.