Author: Sheilah Vance

A lifelong resident of the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, area, Sheilah Vance is a practicing attorney and author of three novels, including Becoming Valley Forge, which won the award for Regional Fiction, 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and three non-fiction books, including Six Days in December: General George Washington’s and the Continental Army’s Encampment on Rebel Hill, December 13–19, 1777. She has a J.D. from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Communications from Howard University. A member of the Friends of Valley Forge, she speaks extensively about the Philadelphia Campaign of the Revolutionary War. Visit her at www.becomingvalleyforge.com.

Historic Sites Posted on November 5, 2019November 4, 2019

Valley Forge’s Threshold: The Encampment at Gulph Mills

William Trego’s painting The March to Valley Forge is iconic. Where the Continental Army marched from has been largely overlooked. That march was from The Conshohocken or Gulph Hills, in Upper Merion Township, about seven miles from Valley Forge, where the army encamped from December 13 to 19, 1777. As one historian noted, “These grounds were […]

by Sheilah Vance