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111 West Chapline St. Sharpsburg, MD 21782

Nearby Attractions

Maintained by the National Park Service, nearby Antietam National Battlefield attractions include a visitor center, numerous markers and monuments, an observation tower, several hiking and biking trails, and the Antietam National Cemetery.

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine's Pry House Field Hospital Museum is located in General McClellan's former headquarters two miles east of the Antietam Guest House. A small tree-lined park exists where General Lee's headquarters once stood on the west side of Sharpsburg.

A mile west of the Antietam Guest House is the Snyder's Landing area of the Potomac River and the 185-mile long Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park with its popular towpath hiking and biking trail.

Three miles southwest of the Antietam Guest House, the new James Rumsey Bridge carries Maryland Route 34 across the Potomac River to West Virginia, historic Shepherdstown and the campus of Shepherd University.

On the Maryland shore of the Potomac River, the National Park Service maintains the C&O Canal's Antietam Campground a mile south of the James Rumsey Bridge. The Park Service also maintains Ferry Hill Place, the home of Confederate Colonel Henry Kyd Douglas, just north of the bridge on the Maryland shore. The historic Maryland towns of Keedysville and Boonsboro are 10 or 15 minutes east of the Antietam Guest House.

Additional nearby Maryland attractions include the Washington County Rural Heritage Museum, Devil's Backbone County Park, South Mountain State Park, South Mountain Battlefield State Park, Washington Monument State Park, Gathland State Park, Greenbrier State Park, the Kennedy Farm John Brown headquarters national historic landmark, and the Appalachian Trail. Nearby West Virginia attractions include the National Conservation Training Center and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.

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