Fredrick Wampole’s 1755 barn (seen here around 1960 and razed in 1979) on the farm where General George Washington stablished his headquarters in Towamencin Township in Oct. 1777. The historic Wampole farmhouse was in the foreground to the right just out of the photograph. (Photo courtesy of Brian Hagey)

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