Valley Forge --> Of Lords and Generals

Headquarters of Lord Cornwallis near Valley Forge. The British armies were at Valley Forge and vicinity in September 1777, having advanced through this region after the Battle of Brandywine. They ransacked the houses and barns of a great quantity of military stores and provisions. Lord Howe and Cornwallis occupied old farm houses near Valley Forge. The British thirty-third regiment infantry came to America in February, 1776 commanded by Cornwallis, and was in nearly all the important engagements and surrendered with Cornwallis at Yorktowne on October 18, 1781.

The house said to have been Gen. Howes' Headquarters (not shown) may have been a couple of miles west (there is a housethere that somewhat resembles it), but probably it was more likely that it stood farther northwest of Route 23, as the British occupied land a little closer to Phoenixville.

Headquarters of American Brigadier-General Harry Lee and General Lord Sterling
This house was the home of Rev. Dr. Currie in 1777, and was occupied by General Lee and Lord Sterling. It is of the old substantial stone type and has not been altered in any material respect. General Lee was the dashing "Light Horse Harry" of the famous Lee family of Virginia. General Lord Sterling, a Jersey man, was a great patriot and one of the best and most active of the American officers in the War for Independence. He was a claimant to the British Estates of the Earl of Sterling and assumed this title.

The structure does indeed still stand on Yellow Springs Road, just west of the park, and is undergoing restoration.