New England and Its Neighbors Author:Clifton Johnson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: The Macmillan Company Subjects: Country life New England New York (State) Juvenile Fiction / Lifestyles / Country Life Social Science / Sociology / Rural Travel / United States / General Travel / United States / Northeast / General Tr... more »avel / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic Travel / United States / Northeast / New England Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: New England and its Neighbors In Valley Forge MIDWINTER IN VALLEY FORGE MY impression had been that Valley Forge was a wild glen, high among the mountains, where winter frosts and snows held unrelaxing sway for many long, dark months every year. But in reality its situation is neither lofty nor remote, and the rigors of the cold are not nearly what they are in the states farther north. Comparatively little snow falls, and often there is not a week's sleighing the winter through. The Valley is only twenty-three miles from Philadelphia, with which it has direct connection by a railroad that skirts along the Schuylkill River. When you alightfrom the train you find a diminutive station, and, on the opposite side of the tracks, a freight-shed and an ancient, broken-roofed mill. But immediately beyond the old mill is the colonial mansion which was Washington's headquarters, and beyond that lies the village -- a straggling little place, scattered along several diverging roads. A good-sized stream courses northward through the midst of the hamlet to join the Schuylkill, and beside it are two mills. These, like the one adjoining the station, are vacant and crumbling. The smaller of the two is mostly constructed of wood. The other is of brick -- a great...« less