The Unsolved Mystery of
Graves and Ghosts at Valley Forge
Because the traditional Valley Forge story includes images of men starving, freezing, and dying of sickness, visitors to the site in Victorian times imagined that perhaps thousands of Revolutionary soldiers lay buried there.
One area then acknowledged as a camp burying ground was south of Route 23 near the sites now known as Varnum's and Huntington's Quarters where a lone headstone marked with the initials "JW" appeared to stand among many other unmarked graves. The other supposed burial ground was within the arc made by Outer Line Drive as it winds downhill from Wayne's Woods. An 1898 letter described how this sloping ground had been eroded to reveal the knee bones of soldiers buried in a crouched position.
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