The Samuel Cobean Farm is in Cumberland Township, along the Carlisle Road just north of Gettysburg. The Administrative Offices for Gettysburg National Military Park are currently located at the Cobean farm and have been there since the late 1990s.
According to the Library of Congress, the house is the only Georgian style farmhouse within Gettysburg National Military Park, and is one of the oldest brick houses in Adams County. Due to its size, it is somewhat atypical of the average Pennsylvania farmhouse, and its architectural features are unlike those of the houses in the immediate vicinity. The house is one of only two remaining Civil War era structures on the farm. It was built in 1805 by David Dunwoody, who sold the farm to Samuel Alexander Cobean.
At the time of the battle, Cobean lived at this farm with his wife, Elizabeth, and six children. During the battle, on July 1, Reese’s battery was likely posted here; after the battle beginning on the evening of July 1, the Cobean Farm was used as a hospital by Ewell’s Corps. General Trimble’s leg was amputated here after he was wounded during Pickett’s Charge.
(The Cobean Farm is Confederate Hospital #5 on the Adams County Historical Society’s Hospital Site tour.)
