Excerpt from ‘The Continental Army at Headquarters: Towamensing’ by Brian Hagey, showing a mile marker along Allentown Road and Fredrick Wampole’s 1755 barn (razed in 1979) on the farm where General George Washington established his headquarters in Towamencin in Oct. 1777. (Image courtesy of Brian Hagey)

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