Winter Encampment

When the Continental Army wintered here, the countryside was stripped of trees as all available wood went to build and heat a crowded city of huts on this ridge. Every acre was heavily used for entrenchments, stock pens, an artillery park, and parade grounds, and the fields turned to mud. Within decades after the war, the scene had returned to woodlots and farmland, and the encampment is now marked by earthworks and monuments.

Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania · United States