A little sun, not too cold...
We headed north the same way we did on 11/29/2020, when oil had started leaking from the car. We were nine miles from home on a country road, and AAA took hours to arrive. With the pandemic, we could not ride with the tow truck driver, so we had to call a fellow GFE resident to pick us up. Fortunately, the problem was a faulty gasket from the last oil change, thus the replacement was done gratis by the same auto place.
Today, we made it past nine miles!
Winds dealt a blow to the Waynesborough sign |
Waynesborough (1724, with additions), birthplace and ancestral home of American Revolutionary War Brigadier General "Mad" Anthony Wayne |
Renovated Waynesborough Carriage House (KSS) |
Wetherby-Hampton-Snyder-Wilson-Erdman Log House (1714, with additions) |
Great Valley Mill (1859, replacing mills dating back to c 1710), a grist mill for grain flour; the mill of the time would have supplied Washington's troops at Valley Forge |
Lee & Bradford Quarters/David Havard House on Chesterbrook Farm (c 1766) |
Furness Barn (1898, by Frank Furness) is painted a deep red, the same color as the Pennsylvania railroad cars; now Chesterbrook Academy, a preschool |
Federal Barn (1792 and 1840) at Cressbrook Farm, a Pennsylvania bank barn of fieldstone, is inscribed with the name of the original builder, Jonathan Moor |
Showing how the barns are built along a bank |
Jones Log Barn (c 1730, in English Lake District style), one of the oldest intact log barns in the Mid-Atlantic region, was reconstructed 2015-2020 here at Cressbrook Farm |
Remains of a cold cellar, perhaps, at Cressbrook Farm (KSS) |
Bat House (KSS) |
Wayne Quarters (c 1757) was the home of General Wayne's cousin, Sarah Thomas Walker, and her husband, Joseph Walker |
Knox Quarters (c 1771, L half of white structure, plus additions); Brigadier General Henry Knox was Chief of Artillery of the Continental Army |
Sign of the times |
Barn of the former Valley Forge Farm, location of Knox Quarters; note the support pillars are wider at the base (KSS) |
Chicken coop, perhaps, at the former Valley Forge Farm |
Knox Covered Bridge (1865), a Steel stringer/ Burr Arch Covered Bridge over Valley Creek |
A short hike down to and across Valley Creek passed this tree stump clinging to mossy rocks (KSS) |
Lafayette Quarters/Samuel Havard House (1763, plus additions); Major General Marie Jean Paul Yves Gilbert Motier de Lafayette volunteered, with no pay and no command, to assist Washington |
Lafayette Quarters undergoing much needed renovation (KSS) |
So, why not just incorporate the broken utility pole in your repair job? |
David Potts House (c 1757) |
Delaware Memorial (1914) |
Valley Forge Station (1911, by the Reading Railroad) was one of two entry points for visitors to the historical park |
Valley Forge Station was restored in 2009 as a museum and visitor information center |
Washington Headquarters/Isaac Potts House (1768, in German Quaker vernacular style) was sublet by General Washington from renter Deborah Hewes, the aunt of Isaac Potts |
General George Washington statue (copy of 1785-1792 statue by Jean-Antoine Houdon that stands in the Virginia State Capitol) |
Valley Forge Station |
Most of the visitors today were Branta canadensis/Canada Geese |
Before Washington moved into the Isaac Potts House, he lived in a tent until cabins were built for his troops; these are reproductions of the Commander-in-Chief Guard huts |
Time to head home before the sun sets.
Another time: Valley Forge II.
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