The Farm of Joseph and Sarah Sherrick is east of Sharpsburg on the north side of the Burnside Bridge Road just east of Rodman Avenue. The couple, aged 60 and 55, left the farm as the armies moved in. The farm was between the lines during most of the battle and badly looted of foodstuffs by soldiers of both armies, who also picked the orchards clean and trampled the crops. After the battle its buildings were used as hospitals and many bodies were buried on the grounds. However, the $3,000 in gold that Joseph had hidden in one of the stone walls had not been disturbed.

The barn was struck by lightning and burned in 1983. Its foundation is still visible,

The photo looks southeast from Rodman Avenue from just north of the Burnside Bridge Road, visible to the right of the sign. Just south of here Rodman Avenue crosses a bridge over modern Burnside Bridge Road (which since the early 1960’s does not go to Burnside’s Bridge) and intersects with the park road that currently does go to Burnside’s Bridge, as well as Branch Avenue.

Burnside Bridge Road connected with the bridge at the time of the battle, and runs from Antietam Creek (among the trees in the center of the photo) up the narrow, steep valley all the way to Sharpsburg (behind the photographer.) The Otto farmhouse faces the Sherrick farmhouse across the valley, hidden in the trees at the right.