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Adams County, Pennsylvania
Adams County
is a
county
in the
U.S. state
of
Pennsylvania
. As of the
2010 census
, the population was 101,407. Its
county seat
is
Gettysburg
. The county was created on January 22, 1800, from part of
York County
and named in honor of the second
President of the United States
,
John Adams
. On 1–3 July 1863, Gettysburg and its vicinity was the site of the
pivotal battle
of the
American Civil War
, and as a result is a center for Civil War tourism.
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