This district includes eleven contributing buildings and thirteen contributing sites, on thirteen contiguous properties, including eight farmsteads and White's Church (or Marks German Reformed Church). The farmsteads are Schwartz Farm, Shaeffer Farm, Trostle Farm, Lewis Bushman Farm, Diener Farm, Conover Farm, Lightner Farm, and Beitler Farm. The properties served as hospitals during the American Civil War for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 12th corps of the Army of the Potomac in the weeks immediately following July 1863's Battle of Gettysburg.[2]