Anna Morris Holstein led the effort to acquire, preserve, and restore Washington’s Headquarters and the surrounding acreage at Valley Forge, the first State Park, now National Historical Park. She also helped preserve Mount Vernon and served as Organizing Regent of the Valley Forge Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution; as a Civil War hospital matron and nurse in Gettysburg, Virginia, and Maryland; as an author; and as Pennsylvania State Building matron at the 1893 World’s Fair. She lived here.