Plans to open a slot-machine casino near the historic Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg National Military Park drawn intense opposition from the area residents and preservationists. Despite the opposition, Gettysburg's borough council voted to support the proposed plans and the council's president will speak in favor of the plans at a public hearing, this week.

Ted Streeter, the Council president said that the money will help the borough to improve its police capabilities, to deal with the influx of gamblers and potentially to reduce property taxes.
The proposed location of the casino is of relatively minor significance, during the Civil War few Confederate soldiers gathered there before heading into one of the major battles of the war, yet many people showed up for the meeting carrying signs in support and opposition of the proposed casino. There is a room to believe that most people are worried about the crime and the traffic that gamblers might bring to Gettysburg and not only about the insult to the memory of the soldiers and the battlefields of the Civil War.