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.
2 comments:
The photo you have of brookmead farm is incorrect. The correct address for that home is 267 walker rd.
Thank you, Jennifer, for the correction. The house pictured as "Brookmead Farm" is actually at 281 Brookmead Road. The real Brookmead Farm (267 Walker Road) is hidden to the left beyond the red-roofed barn. My apologies.
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