Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Workizer, Thropp Cone Families: Biographical Notes Concerning Their Relations to Historical Events in the Schuylkill Valley and at Valley Forge
Had it not been for events which occurred thereabouts of vital importance to our national life, the name Valley Forge would possess no more significance to the American mind than the name of Greenwood Furnace, Eagle Foundry, Blair's Mills, or any other village grown up around a similar center of industry.
But the same fundamental cause which brought hither this institution of peaceful labor in order that its great mill wheel might be turned by the running stream - for the Forge was also a grist-mill - also brought hither in the winter of 1777 and 1778 those hardy sons of Liberty, who, though lovers of peace and the pursuits of peace, now carried the implements of war that their Liberty might be secured.
The valleys of the earth have from time immemorial been the pathways of history - the history of war and the history ofpeace. The navigable streams which ran through them were the natural avenues of travel. The contours of their borders permitted of roadways with easy grades. The streams afforded power for industry and water for domestic use. The alluvial soil and abundant moisture yielded the husbandman an ample reward for his toil. The protecting hills sheltered the inhabitants from the chill blasts of winter.
And so mankind has traveled through, settled in, and made history in the valleys.
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