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1050 Valley Forge Road: Upper Merion Township: One of five surviving buildings from the demolished village of Port Kennedy. Now part of Valley Forge National Historical Park. 74: Keswick Theatre: Keswick Theatre: June 30, 1983 : 291 Keswick Avenue
Valley Forge was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1961 and was listed in the initial National Register of Historic Places in 1966. [8] [9] The area covered by these listings goes outside what was then Valley Forge State Park boundaries to include four historic houses where the Marquis de Lafayette and other officers were quartered.
In 1751, there was a forge at the mouth of the East Valley creek used to convert pig iron into bar iron. It was advertised for sale as the property of Daniel Walker, Stephen Evans, and Joseph Williams. It was originally called Mount Joy forge but came to be known as Valley Forge. The pig iron used at Valley Forge was hauled from Warwick Furnace.
Valley Forge is a village in the southwestern corner of Springettsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located just to the northeast of the city of York near the intersection of U.S. Route 30 and North Sherman Street. Harley-Davidson's York plant is nominally located in Valley Forge.
Valley Forge National Historical Park Valley Creek Road, near junction of PA Routes 252 & 23 40°05′58″N 75°27′43″W / 40.099490°N 75.461954°W / 40.099490; -75.461954 ( Washington's Headquarters
Kennedy Mansion (Valley Forge), also known as Kennedy-Supplee Mansion, is an Italian-villa-style residence within Valley Forge National Historical Park. Now squeezed between PA Route 23 and U.S. Route 422 (Pottstown Expressway), it once overlooked the 19th-century industrial village of Port Kennedy .
Washington's Headquarters at Valley Forge, also known as the Isaac Potts House, is a historic house that served as General George Washington's headquarters at Valley Forge during the American Revolutionary War. The building, which still stands, is one of the centerpieces of Valley Forge National Historical Park in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
The Horse-Shoe Trail is traditionally described in the westbound direction. It begins in Valley Forge National Park and heads west, traversing historic battlefields from the Revolutionary War. [5] After leaving the national park, the route follows a variety of rural roads, with some wooded and undeveloped segments.