Existing comment:
Continental Army
Encampments
at Morristown
1777 - 1781
Life Guard Camp.
On this site, the Commander in
Chief's guard was encamped from
December 1779 to June 1780.
The guard was reorganized in
Morristown during the first
encampment in 1777 and again in 1780.
Washington made his headquarters
in the Ford House opposite.
Erected in 1952 by
Tempe Wicke Society
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