Valley Forge National Historical Park will commemorate the arrival of the Continental Army to Valley Forge in 1777 with the “March In to Valley Forge,” an evening of special family-friendly programs from 6-8:00 PM on Saturday, Dec. 14.
The public is invited to begin their visit inside the Visitor Center at Valley Forge with light refreshments, holiday shopping at The Encampment Store, and a commemorative March In to Valley Forge program booklet describing all of the programs and activities taking place that evening.
The experience will continue on a short quarter-mile, lantern-lit walk from the visitor center to the log huts at Muhlenberg’s Brigade, where living history presenters and park rangers will talk by firelight about the conditions and circumstances that soldiers, civilians, women, and men of the Continental Army faced when they marched into Valley Forge on Dec. 19, 1777.
A 25-minute presentation dramatizing the trial of Joseph Edwards, an inhabitant of Pennsylvania tried in February of 1778 for attempting to drive cattle to the British, will take place in the park theater at 6:30 PM and 7:30 PM. The Visitor Center at Valley Forge and The Encampment Store will close at 9:00 PM.
The public is encouraged to plan their visit and find more details about the March In to Valley Forge on the park website here.
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Learn more at Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board. The Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board is a private, non-profit membership sales and marketing organization that actively promotes the Valley Forge area and Montgomery County as a convention site and leisure visitor destination by promoting patronage of its member hotels, restaurants, attractions, and services.
