Pennsylvania's Brandywine a big battlefield, but almost forgotten.

Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) (via Knight-Ridder/TribuneNews Service) | February 26, 2002 | Copyright

Byline: Bob Downing

CHADDS FORD, Pa. _ Brandywine may be one of America's most forgotten Revolutionary War battlefields.

You can visit Gen. George Washington's reconstructed headquarters and the nearby quarters of the Marquis de Lafayette, along with a small visitor center/museum at Brandywine Battlefield State Park.

Both officers were lodged in historic Quaker farmhouses on a 50-acre tract that today lies off U.S. 1 about 20 miles southwest of Philadelphia.

It is the site of Revolutionary War re-enactments and children's summer camps ...

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