Add to ORKGIn a house along the first block of the north side of Chambersburg Street, a small metallic ticking noise signaled change. The calendar read December 24th, 1862. The rhythmic tapping was a voice, reaching out in code along thin strips of metal dangling from poles running to the east out of town. Soon, Hanover, York, Harrisburg, and Baltimore, were sending their glad tidings to Gettysburg\u27s citizens. Then soon, Gettysburg found herself on that Christmas Eve connected, with all the world and the rest of mankind, the Adams Sentinel reported. In the home of John Scott along Chambersburg Street, the telegraph had come to Gettysburg. Lightning could now send words to the far-flung corners of the nation from the Adams County seat. [excerpt