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The Village of Valley Forge is an unincorporated settlement located on the west side of
Valley Forge National Historical Park Valley Forge National Historical Park is the site of the third winter encampment of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, taking place from December 19, 1777, to June 19, 1778. The National Park Service preserves the site a ...
at the confluence of Valley Creek and the
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in
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. The remaining village is in Schuylkill Township of
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, but once spanned Valley Creek into Montgomery County. The name Valley Forge is often used to refer to anywhere in the general vicinity of the park, and many places actually in
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, Trooper, Oaks, and other nearby communities will use the name, leading to some ambiguity on the actual location of the modern village. There is a partial re-creation of the historic village from the time of the
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that is located next door, and just within the outskirts of the park. Valley Forge is known by travelers in the
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area as the westbound
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on Interstate 76 (the Schuylkill Expressway), as it is near where I-76 joins the
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. This remains, despite no exit being designated for Valley Forge, since the previous exit became the off-ramp to Mall Boulevard, serving King of Prussia.


Mount Joy & Valley Forges

In 1751 there was a forge for the conversion of
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into bar-iron at the mouth of the East Valley creek, a tributary of the Schuylkill River, advertised for sale as the property of Daniel Walker, Stephen Evans, and Joseph Williams. It was then called Mount Joy forge. Some years afterward it came to be known as Valley Forge. The pig-iron used at Valley Forge was hauled from Warwick furnace. In September, 1777, the forge was burned by the British, and in December the army under Washington was entrenched on Montgomery County side of Valley creek, opposite Valley Forge. General Washington's headquarters were established at the substantial stone-house of Isaac Potts. After the Revolution another Valley Forge was built on the other side of Valley creek; it was in ruins in 1816.James M. Swank, The Iron and Steel Industries of Pennsylvania, ''Annual Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania'' (1883) Part III, ''Industrial Statistics''
Vol. X 1881-82, ''Report of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics'', Legislative Document, No. 7
pp. 20-21.


American Revolutionary War encampment

Valley Forge is mostly known for the lending of its name to the encampment of
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's
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during the winter of 1777 to 1778.


Notable people

* Tory Burch * Andy Hummel


See also

*
Valley Forge Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War. In September 1777, Congress fled Philadelphia to escape the ...
*
Washington Memorial Chapel Washington Memorial Chapel — located on Pennsylvania Route 23 in Valley Forge National Historical Park — is both a national memorial dedicated to General George Washington and an active Episcopal parish in Valley Forge, Pennsylvani ...


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Old Train station
{{authority control Valley Forge Unincorporated communities in Chester County, Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania Populated places on the Schuylkill River