![]() Branching off to the northwest, not far from the city limits, were the Germantown Road and, splitting off from that at Chestnut Hill, Bethlehem Pike, known then as the North Wales Road. York Road was the main conduit up to New York City, crossing the Delaware River in Bucks County. Only a few existed heading north out of Philadelphia. The roads that did exist were underdeveloped and difficult to traverse. Nothing of the modern layout of roads and streets existed, even in one’s imagination. ![]() The area was covered by virgin stands of forest with relatively few areas of cleared land for fields. Beyond lay scattered farms, small hamlets and occasional taverns. Philadelphia’s northernmost outskirts lay just past present day Vine Street. The population was small compared to the millions who live in the Delaware Valley today. Rather than the busyness of the roadways and the seemingly endless and seamless neighborhoods, businesses and people, the region was quite rural. Except for the general lay of the land, the hills, and streams, it is hard to imagine what the area was like during those days. ![]() This year marks the 240th anniversary of the Whitemarsh encampment and related skirmishes.
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