Winter Encampment
December 19, 1777 – June 19, 1778
The countryside was stripped of trees. All available wood went to build and heat the city of huts that crowded this ridge.
When the Continental Army wintered here, every acre was heavily used – for entrenchments, stock pens, an artillery park, and parade grounds. Fields turned to mud. Within decades after the war, the scene had returned to woodlots and farmland. The tour route circles the encampment, now marked by earthworks and monuments.
Marker is on Outer Line Drive, on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
