Brandywine's losing battlefield nearly lost in suburban setting

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | March 31, 2002| | Copyright

Brandywine's losing battlefield nearly lost in suburban setting

By BOB DOWNING

Knight Ridder News Service

Sunday, March 31, 2002

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 ...

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