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Show SAME VALLEY TOROB. Between lo.ftg and 10.(mi persons Visit Valley Forge every year. Everything Every-thing poealhle haa been done to attract them. n the hills where Washington's srmy suffered snd Med there am now beautifully kept macadam roads and bridle paths that meander through llw trees. By trsln. motor, bicycle, ntotor-cvr-le and afoot the crowds come but alwavs 'n the spring, summer or autumn. au-tumn. When snow rails, fresh marvels of beauty are revealed. Only few, save the fox hunters, ever see fhem. Winter i-hsnges everything. Autumn lesvea the hills and the trees gaunt and bare, but when the flrat fell of snow covers the country Nke a fresh. c!rs:i garment, there is no season of the year when the I a rule. -ape beauties are eclipsed. Every few steps new nature pi. t urea sre revealed, while from the hills are long ! vistss of rolling farm country. Immaculately Immacu-lately wlilte. In many places the vlawa do not differ greedy from those of that winter of 1777-177ft 1777-177ft when Wsshington and his men fought aasinst cotd and starvation. An army of ruasmuf fins, msnv of the troops een without shoes, poorly and rnenfn-ctently rnenfn-ctently nourished, it was almost a miracle that any of those patriots survived. And todsy the mid In the background of the pt'-ture allowing Valley creek ss M empties Into tha MWiuvlkUl takes the pisca of the old John Potts mill, built bo tore the revolution. In 1757 John PMta, a Quaker, built the Mount Joy forge, an iron plant that gave eirnloymcnt to many men snd tesms. Back of the mill, alinoel a uuarter of mile or so. wss this original orig-inal old forxre, which gave the p'nre Its name. Wkn the revolution broke out the property. Including a atone house near tire creek's mouth, had pass tnle the poaseasiim of Isaac Potta, a son of lhr purchaar. and HnersJ ttaitb'imwii Ued tills h- use for his beadVjtiarttrs. Valley creek, with Us besutifuf reflections, reflec-tions, runs through the grounds of the country home of Secretary of Htate Knox. N-ar here was tlie headquarters of General Gen-eral Knex In revolutionary times. Valley creek Is especially prolific of fine views, both In winter and summer, and none Is prettier than those tlirouah the trees of t he road way where It cu r vea at right an a lea from the direction of Secretary KnoK's home toward the Mhuvlklil rtvr Here the effect la not unlike that of th-bc'aware th-bc'aware weier gep, Kr miles, literally, along the roads itiJ pathway one may waird-r n trw ano . either afoot or on liorets k. wli.iiri throigh od f'-rts. Intren-'hmenis and the like. A Ion the huvlklll runa oi ro.d whif-h Is psrtlcnlarly lovely, boili in winter win-ter and an miner. It tlm-a-ts lis alamg the ei4ea of the hM a uiiiil It imi n. . Kort Wash in a ton, whif-h ov.-r -k- o.ie ot t)e flneat v .- In I 'fiMt-r ouu'v. Thete Is no more hi n-r atntmd In the count rv t! n this. Tnt very ti,. ni i i, r.f the revolution suk rni m VnN--v i re a. ene of Ha rfr-a " t -ri i ' A r,. t , . a.frk 4 Inipmvim m- 1 1 ' 1 " 't -j CfMlllmiMllv f-n-tt i -- r.g;. ,t r. v n liml ri-i . - li '. I I'. ( H s- h- ( B 1 M 1 1 1 l ' at ' i ' 'if I'" '"' " ' ' J ft t , 1 Ii t i H ' H I - ' I 1 i (. ' . - . . |