Copy of facts published on Facebook and previously in the Upper Merion Township e-Newsletter.
By Beth Ann Twiss, Muhlenberg’s Headquarters Historian June 12, 1979 [Please note that this version of the history of the house is outdated. The history of the house has been updated with new information on this page: https://www.kophistory.org/moore-irwin/] On December 12, 1777, the Continental Army took up winter quarters at Valley Forge. In desperate need of housing, the soldiers
Joseph Plumb Martin was born in western Massachusetts in 1760. His father was a pastor who often got in trouble for speaking his mind too freely. At the age of seven, Joseph was sent to live with his affluent grandfather. When the war started in 1775, Martin was eager to enlist, but he was too young. Many of Martin’s friends
Congratulations to our very own Sheilah Vance who has published an article in the Journal of the American Revolution. The article recounts the six-day encampment of the Continental Army on Rebel Hill near Gulph Mills before marching to Valley Forge. This oft-forgotten chapter of our history deserves to be more well-known than it is. Well done, Sheilah! VALLEY FORGE’S THRESHOLD:
The land the Valley Forge Shopping Center occupies once belonged to one of the earliest Swedish settlers in Upper Merion — Matthias Holstein, Jr. He was born on July 1, 1681 in Passyunk, Moyamensing, Philadelphia, PA. Matthias moved to Upper Merion with his wife. He purchased 1,000 acres of land, beginning at the Schuylkill River, comprising what is now the