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metsurf t1_j2sqzea wrote

The winter in Morristown was just about every bit as miserable as the more famous one at Valley Forge. Feet of snow in Jockey Hollow area.

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AspireAgain t1_j2sz48e wrote

We relocated from Illinois to Morris County for about 6 years and it was amazing how much Revolutionary War history there was in the area. Jockey Hollow was quite an eye-opener, as was when a reenactor at the Colonial Farm there joked that the farmhouse on site was probably the ONLY place in New Jersey that no one claim Washington visited, as History shows he never visited the troops in Jockey Hollow at all while they were there.

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metsurf t1_j2tiy0s wrote

I haven't been to any of the sites since my son was in elementary school. The HQ is in Morristown proper and there is a house called Schuyler Hamilton house where Hamilton met Elizabeth Schuyler his wife. The owner's apparently set them up.

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sutisuc t1_j2tae1i wrote

Based on weather conditions it was worse but valley forge is better remembered because of the higher mortality rate mostly due to the spread of disease

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