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James N.
Colonial Militia
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 Posted - October 22 2012 : 3:30:33 PM
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Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is a Living History farmstead within Ridley Creek State Park, only about twenty miles from downtown Philadelphia and midway north-south between Chester and Valley Forge. Annually it hosts both Revolutionary War and Civil War encampments and other events, but primarially exists to demonstrate Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth-Century life on a typical Pennsylvania country farm. The armies of Howe and Washington were in the area during the Philadelphia Campaign, but generally marched either north or south of it.
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The unseasonably hot, dry October of 1997 I visited here, the best fall color I saw was here in Ridley Creek State Park.
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Road leading to the plantation.
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Period fencing, above and below, defines the fields around the farm buildings.
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Original stone "cabin" and reconstructed Eighteenth-Century-style barn.
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Trail leading past the stone cabin between the barn and main house.
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James N.
Colonial Militia
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Posted - October 22 2012 : 4:07:08 PM
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The Joseph Pratt House is at the center of the farm and typically for this area was built and added to over succeeding years, ca. 1705 - 1835. It and several other outbuildings here were what caused this farm to be selected for the purpose to become today's state park.
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The oldest portion of the structure is at the left.
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The stone arch beneath the central portion of the house is for support only.
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This first-floor parlor is in the oldest part of the house, ca. 1705.
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The second floor bed chamber shows why the bed and its elaborate furnishings were usually the most expensive pieces in a colonial home.
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Period cooking was being demonstrated in the large 1700's kitchen. |
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Monadnock Guide
Council of Elders
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Posted - October 22 2012 : 5:01:34 PM
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| Some more great pics & narrative James, - thx. |
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Wilderness Woman
Watcher of the Wood
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Posted - October 23 2012 : 12:31:45 PM
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I could live quite comfortably in that house!  Beautiful! |
"It is more deeply stirring to my blood than any imaginings could possibly have been." |
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Monadnock Guide
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Posted - October 23 2012 : 9:03:02 PM
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| Might be a bit of a struggle WW, - but with some effort who knows? ... |
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Colonial Penn Plantation in Ridley Creek State Park
