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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.
An aerial photo of the Valley Forge General Hospital, a United States Army hospital that operated from 1943 to 1974 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Valley Forge General Hospital is a former military hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The hospital was near both Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Valley Forge.
The Village of Valley Forge is an unincorporated settlement. It is located on the west side of Valley Forge National Historical Park at the confluence of Valley Creek and the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania. The remaining village is in Schuylkill Township of Chester County. It once spanned Valley Creek into Montgomery County.
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Valley Forge was established as the first state park of Pennsylvania in 1893 by the Valley Forge Park Commission (VFPC) "to preserve, improve, and maintain as a public park the site on which General George Washington's army encamped at Valley Forge." [7] The area around Washington's headquarters was chosen as the park site.
Upon the arrival of the Continental Army at Valley Forge, the David Havard House served as quarters for Colonel William Bradford [2] and Colonel Elias Boudinot, who were brothers-in-law. [ 3 ] : 121–122 Bradford's older brother Thomas, a captain, arrived in January 1778, and their father, Colonel William Bradford Sr. , joined them in April 1778.
Valley Forge was the winter encampment of the Continental Army, under the command of George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War. The Valley Forge encampment lasted six months, from December 19, 1777, to June 19, 1778. It was the third of the eight winter encampments that Washington and the Continental Army endured during the war.
Pennsylvania Route 23, Pennsylvania Route 29, and Pennsylvania Route 113 are the numbered roads serving Schuylkill Township. PA 23 follows Valley Forge Road and Schuylkill Road along a northwest-southeast alignment across the northern and eastern portions of the township.