March In to Valley Forge Event Commemorates the 247th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Continental Army

News Release Date:
December 2, 2024

Contact: Gregory Purifoy

Contact: Jennifer Bolton

King of Prussia, Pa.- 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 PM to 8 PM on Saturday, December 14, 2024.

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 ¼ 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 in to Valley Forge on December 19, 1777.

A 25-minute presentation dramatizing the trial of Joseph Edwards, an inhabitant of Pennsylvania tried in Februrary 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 PM.

The public is encouraged to plan their visit and find more details about the March In to Valley Forge on the park website at go.nps.gov/march-in-2024.

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