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Colonial Penn Plantation in Ridley Creek State Park

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[quote][i]Originally posted by James N.[/i]
[br]Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is a Living History farmstead within Ridley Creek State Park, only about twenty miles from downtown Philadelphia and midway north-south between Chester and Valley Forge.  Annually it hosts both Revolutionary War and Civil War encampments and other events, but primarially exists to demonstrate Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth-Century life on a typical Pennsylvania country farm.  The armies of Howe and Washington were in the area during the Philadelphia Campaign, but generally marched either north or south of it.

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The unseasonably hot, dry October of 1997 I visited here, the best fall color I saw was here in Ridley Creek State Park.

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Road leading to the plantation.

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Period fencing, above and below, defines the fields around the farm buildings.

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Original stone "cabin" and reconstructed Eighteenth-Century-style barn.

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Trail leading past the stone cabin between the barn and main house.
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James N.	Posted - October 22 2012 : 3:30:33 PM Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is a Living History farmstead within Ridley Creek State Park, only about twenty miles from downtown Philadelphia and midway north-south between Chester and Valley Forge. Annually it hosts both Revolutionary War and Civil War encampments and other events, but primarially exists to demonstrate Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth-Century life on a typical Pennsylvania country farm. The armies of Howe and Washington were in the area during the Philadelphia Campaign, but generally marched either north or south of it. Image Insert: 68.57 KB The unseasonably hot, dry October of 1997 I visited here, the best fall color I saw was here in Ridley Creek State Park. Image Insert: 74.86 KB Road leading to the plantation. Image Insert: 83.62 KB Period fencing, above and below, defines the fields around the farm buildings. Image Insert: 66.58 KB Image Insert: 88.09 KB Original stone "cabin" and reconstructed Eighteenth-Century-style barn. Image Insert: 82.9 KB Trail leading past the stone cabin between the barn and main house.
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Monadnock Guide	Posted - October 23 2012 : 9:03:02 PM Might be a bit of a struggle WW, - but with some effort who knows? ...
Wilderness Woman	Posted - October 23 2012 : 12:31:45 PM I could live quite comfortably in that house! Beautiful!
Monadnock Guide	Posted - October 22 2012 : 5:01:34 PM Some more great pics & narrative James, - thx.
James N.	Posted - October 22 2012 : 4:07:08 PM The Joseph Pratt House is at the center of the farm and typically for this area was built and added to over succeeding years, ca. 1705 - 1835. It and several other outbuildings here were what caused this farm to be selected for the purpose to become today's state park. Image Insert: 89.99KB The oldest portion of the structure is at the left. Image Insert: 40.76KB The stone arch beneath the central portion of the house is for support only. Image Insert: 27.89KB This first-floor parlor is in the oldest part of the house, ca. 1705. Image Insert: 59.02KB The second floor bed chamber shows why the bed and its elaborate furnishings were usually the most expensive pieces in a colonial home. Image Insert: 47.86KB Period cooking was being demonstrated in the large 1700's kitchen.

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