Jennie Wade House
Gettysburg, PA

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Mary Virginia Wade or "Jennie" was born in this house on Baltimore Street, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on May 21, 1843.

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Notes:
Famous heroine, Mary Virginia Wade was born in this house at 242-246 Baltimore Street.
This house was built between 1814 and 1820. The Wade family rented the northern half from a tailor named John Pfoutz. John was using the southern side for his shop.

An addition was added in 1870 which included a kitchen.

The Wade family never owned this house.

The tablet on the house reads:
MARY VIRGINIA WADE
A HEROINE OF THE
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
WAS BORN IN THIS HOUSE
MAY 21, 1843
THIS TABLET WAS UNVEILED BY HER SISTER
GEORGIA WADE McCLELLAN MAY 21, 1922