Winfield S. Hancock

Outstanding Civil War general and hero of the Battle of Gettysburg, was born here Feb. 14, 1824. After 1828 he lived in Norristown, where he is buried.

Marker is on Bethlehem Pike (Pennsylvania Route 309) 0.2 miles south of Dekalb Pike (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north.

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