Local Stories in Montgomery County
Pennsylvania·4 places
Military
Muhlenberg Brigade Huts
Nine reconstructed log huts facing a gravel company street mark the camp of the Virginia brigade of Brigadier General Peter Muhlenberg on the outer line of the Valley Forge encampment of 1777 and 1778.
Military
The Grand Parade
The Grand Parade, the broad open field near the centre of Valley Forge National Historical Park, is where Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben drilled the Continental Army in the spring of 1778. Steuben landed in America on 1 December 1777 and reached the camp on 23 February 1778.
History
The Potts Prayer Story
The best known image of George Washington at Valley Forge, the general kneeling alone in prayer, rests on a single witness: Isaac Potts, a Quaker who owned the house beside Valley Creek that Washington used as his headquarters during the encampment of 1777 and 1778. Potts ran a grist mill at Valley Forge, where his brother David had a share in the ironworks.
History
Waterman Monument
The Waterman Monument, a 50-foot granite obelisk raised in 1901 by the Daughters of the Revolution, stands over what was long called the only identified grave at Valley Forge, that of John Waterman of Rhode Island. In the Victorian era visitors imagined that thousands of Revolutionary soldiers lay buried across the camp.
Elsewhere in Pennsylvania
Hear it from the road
Whistlestop is an audio tour guide app that tells you this story automatically when you drive past. No searching, no tapping, nothing to ask.
