Monday, May 16th.
Our much awaited Train trip through Lancaster Valley was today.
The town is called Strasburg & there are a few different museums about trains. There were two that were closed while we were here Steve also went in a toy train store here.
Pictures throughout the countryside.
The Amish use horses & mules for working in the fields.
Some cute pics of the train station.
A very antique truck.
From the plains & rolling hills of Lancaster to the plains & rolling hills of Valley Forge. We first ate lunch at a picnic table. It was a little drizzly but came & went.
The soldiers & all the camp followers came along with the husbands & fathers. They spent the winters of 1777-1778. They had suffered a lot of loss & were sick,& short on supplies. They hoped to recover here.
The diseases they were fighting were dysentery, smallpox,typhoid, flu & pneumonia. 2,000 of 10,000 men died of disease.
Swords & gun collections.
Valley Forge finally got some help from the Federal Government for supplies. The Quartermaster was in charge of all supplies.
A Prussian general was put in charge of drilling the men continuously creating a more cohesive unit.
Cabins were built to hold 100 men.
Muhlenberg's Brigade cabins
National Memorial Arch
A hundred or more cabins were built. Some housed 100 men.
A memorial
General "Mad Anthony Wayne."
This schoolhouse was part of the town of Valley Forge that grew after the Encampment.
Train station built to serve the town of Valley Forge.
The stone house that Washington used for his headquarters while they were at Valley Forge. It was previously built.
The town of Valley Forge was established about 25 years after the Encampment.
General Knox Headquarters
This church is a memorial to George Washington. It is still used today.
The monument to Washington.
We traveled down to Lum's Pond in Delaware to our campsite.
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