Charlestown

Valley Forge Park
- acquisitions and condemnations


Seller Date of deedDescriptionAreaReference

Hannah L. Walker

10/12/1903

A link plot between the Memorial Arch and the Pennsylvania columns areas

3.304 a

Q12-14

Mary E. S. Evans

4/1/1904

Fort Washington / Wayne's Woods area

86a 67p

U12-92

Centennial & Memorial Association

6/1905

Washington's HQ

3.7a ?

Deed not found

Robert & Emma Hey

3/20/1908

Paper Mill tract; adjacent to Washington's HQ

2.46a

O13-42 ?

Norristown Trust Company

2/18/1916

Riddle tract; west of creek and south of road

1/3 part of 15a

X14-265

Thomas & Anna Maria Cutler

4/24/1916

Cotton Mill tract (excluding mill)

69.955a

Mont. 747-155

Thomas & Anna Maria Cutler

7/15/1918

Potts-Dewees house aka Iron Master's house

1.531a

Mont. 777-122

Francis M. & Augusta R. Bean, Michael & Ella Hackett, The Phoenixville, Valley Forge and Strafford Electric Railway Company

2/27/1919

Part of Valley Forge meadow

4.4235a

H15-480

Thomas & Anna Maria Cutler

3/31/1919

Cotton Mill and surrounding area

5.827a

Mont. 783-441

Mathilde & Jerome Sheas

6/25/1919

North side of road in Valley Forge Village

0.526a

D16-511; part of condemnation proceedings

Anna Pearl Riddle, Jean May Buxton (nee Riddle)

11/8/1919

Riddle tract, west of creek and south of road

2/3 part of 13.63a

P15-77

Trustees of Washington Camp 150, Patriotic Order, Sons of America

9/24/1920

Original POSA building, Valley Forge Meadow

0.1515a

U15-126

David Vorhees

8/30/1923

149.25p

1.031a

Mont. 1046-403

Thomas & Anna Maria Cutler

10/27/1923

Probably Washington Inn

not stated

Mont. 1117-119

David & Olive Midgley

11/9/1923

Midgley Store, Valley Forge meadow

0.232a

R17-391

Francis M. Bean

11/10/1923

Part of Valley Forge meadow

1.1 a

V17-39

Mary E. S. Evans

5/1/1924

Wayne's Woods area

50.63a + 18.1a

D18-265

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moncur & Brenda Biddle

10/28/1936

Tract between Centerville and Devon roads, Chester County

32.97a

U19-286

Philip & Virginia Zuiderhoek and Fred & Genevieve Lyle

12/12/1941

Part of the James White farm, now the location of Valley Forge post office

2a

S20-282

Pine Iron Works

7/29/1943

Lot between railroad and Schuykill in Schuylkill township

7a

H21-49;

Reading Company

7/29/1943

Lot between railroad and Schuykill in Schuylkill township

0.4a

H21-48

Mary Gertrude Archer & Frederick Wolf

8/3/1945

Greater part of James White farm

59.21a

A22-384

Mathilde Sheas, widow

2/4/1955

North side of road in Valley Forge Village

0.77a

X24-63; Allows Mrs Sheas to live in the house during her lifetime

Samuel & Marion Brittain

1/13/1958

North side of road; originally part of Sheas property.

0.809

W29-124;

James & Rob Tindle

7/14/1965

Philander Knox estate

221a

Misc. 165-107, 270, 271. 356. Misc. 41

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

11/3/1975

Lafayette's quarters

30.83a

V46-214; parts of Z19-174 and G20-278; Lafayette's quarters

Frances Ligget et al

2/22/1978

Stirling's Quarters

65.49a

T52-393; special warantee deed;

Audrey Snyder & Fidelity Bank, trustees

9/27/1982

Stirling's Quarters

60.69a

M60-109; special warranty deed