Upper Merion Township near Wayne in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
DeKalb's Division
Learned's Brigade
Photographed by Eric Milask, March 19, 2011
1. DeKalb's Division Marker
Continental Army
Valley Forge December 19 1777 - June 18 1778
DeKalbs Division
Major General Baron DeKalb
Learned's Brigade
Brig. General Ebenezer Learned
Commanding
2nd Massachusetts Infantry - Col. John Bailey
8th Massachusetts Infantry - Col. Michael Jackson
9th Massachusetts Infantry - Col. James Wesson
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Revolutionary.
Location. 40° 5.616′ N, 75° 26.037′ W. Memorial is near Wayne, Pennsylvania, in Montgomery County. It is in Upper Merion Township. It is on Outer Line Drive, on the right when traveling west. This is the fifth monument traveling west from the welcome center. This marker is .8 miles from the welcome center. Some parking is available roadside or at nearby lots intermittently spaced along the Encampment Tour. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 533 Joseph Plumb Martin Trail, Wayne PA 19087, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in Southeast Pennsylvania and in Greater Philadelphia. It is also in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Maine (here, next to this marker); a different marker also named DeKalbs Division (approx. 0.2 miles away); Massachusetts Monument (approx. 0.2 miles away); Glovers Brigade (approx. 0.2 miles away); Freemasons of Pennsylvania
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More about this memorial. This is the fourth in a series of granite & bronze monuments which line the encampment road tour here at Valley Forge National Historic Park. This marker acknowledges the 2nd, 8th & 9th Massachusetts Infantry & is the second to bear the DeKalb name. There is another monument a few hundred feet away which bears the same name but a different brigade. There are dozens of these stone/bronze markers on the encampment tour.
There is an asphalt path which follows the tour route.
Photographed by Eric Milask, March 19, 2011
2. DeKalb's Division Marker IV
Credits. This page was last revised on October 26, 2024. It was originally submitted on March 26, 2011, by Eric Milask of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 110,294 times since then and 1,135 times this year. Last updated on December 15, 2023, by Carl Gordon Moore Jr. of North East, Maryland. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on March 26, 2011, by Eric Milask of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. • J. Makali Bruton was the editor who published this page.
