Black Horse Tavern (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)

The Black Horse Tavern (Bream's Tavern) is a large stone residence at the Pennsylvania Route 116 intersection with a north-south road at Marsh Creek.

The tavern was used as for approximately 65 years[4] before[specify] 1909, the mill tract rented by William E. Myers was used as a Battle of Gettysburg field hospital.

Built in 1812[5] along the 1791 Nichol's Gap Road (c. 1869 Fairfield and Gettysburg Turnpike),[6] "Francis Bream purchased the farm and tavern in 1843."

During the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg the intersection was a maneuver point for Confederate artillery[7] (the Hagerstown Road forded Marsh Creek).

[8] A stone arch roadway bridge was subsequently built at the tavern[9] and in 1927, the highway near the structure was rerouted from over Bream's Hill to an excavation of the new Fairfield Road with a new bridge at "Plank's".