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FOUR PATRIOTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE

FOUR PATRIOTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE
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Location: 6671 GERMANTOWN AVENUE

City: PHILADELPHIA

State: Pennsylvania

Zip Code: 19119

Type of Memorial: Plaques On Stone

Access: Cemetery

Wars Commemorated: REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Photograph By: DEVRY BECKER JONES

Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org

In the Fall of 1777, five American soldiers were returning from Frankford to Camp Hill in Whitemarsh, seeking rest by a spring along the side of Old York Road near the seven-mile post in Branchtown they were betrayed. Four were slain. The fifth soldier escaped. The four were buried in the Old Lehman Field on Old York Road for 149 years, when on September 8, 1926, the remains were carefully gathered and re-buried here on September 18th, with full military honors.


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