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headquarters. Vaux dined with Howe, who asked about the rebel officer who had been spotted the previous day. When informed that it had been
Washington himself, Howe reportedly replied: "Oh, I wish I had known that. I would have tried to catch him!" The opposing commanders-in-chief probably slept in the same bed on consecutive nights. As Howe slept, the British Army began a night crossing from Valley Forge. Montroser: " 23rd. — Just after 12 o'clock this night the whole army moved to the opposite side, on the north side of the river Schuylkill by the way of Fatland Ford, and by 10 a. m. the whole baggage and all had happily passed it. After the principal body had got on the north side of the Schuylkill about one mile the army halted to dry themselves and rest."
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10 million in the past six months. As the highway leaves the connection with
Betzwood Bridge and aims northwest toward Pottstown, it veers sharply south , down and around Camiel's farm, "Fatland." The parabolic dip in the road mean several miles of additional roadway, roadway that Pottstown was denied. Plutte said the Camiel loop was installed to avert a "potential challenge" arising out of an environmental study. Camiel's farm is near the Audubon Sanctuary, which according to original plans, would have had to surrender land to the highway crews. Federal funds, which pay for 70 per cent of the Pottstown Expressway, could be jeopardized by the taking of the park land, Plutte said.
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whereas a good shad fishery; it also bounds the lands of Henry
Pawling, Esq., and extends along the same to the Perkiomen; there are about 150 acres cleared, 20 whereof are good watered meadow and a great quantity more may be made; the woodland well timbered and the whole well watered, with the conveniency of watering every field on the plantation; there is a good stone dwelling house, brew house, with a large frame barn, three good bearing apple orchards, with a large peach orchard bearing plentifully. The other contains 250 acres ..."
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Bakewells and the Pawlings, and became the great landowner of the peninsula. He subsequently bequeathed the properties to his children and grandchildren. "These properties were improved with stately mansions and outbuildings with beautiful lawns and surroundings. (Also erected were summer residences on some of the properties.)"
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mine, and to obtain his father's permission to marry. He returned to the United States in May 1806 having attained his majority and his father's blessing. Bakewell also consented to the engagement. Audubon sold Mill Grove and his father's interest in the lead mine to
Dacosta in September 1806, and moved to New York City to work as a clerk in the
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Wetherill (1804–1872), inherited Fatland. He was a Philadelphia physician, and partner – with his brother John, who inherited Mill Grove – in the Wetherill White Lead Works. He and his wife Isabella Macomb (1807–1871) had 16 children, 12 of whom lived to adulthood.
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caused imports to be cut off, and the price of lead in the United States to soar. Samuel
Wetherill, Jr., a Philadelphia white lead importer and paint manufacturer, purchased Mill Grove for $ 7,000 in 1813. Wetherill & Son reopened the mine, and "mined and smelted over 100 tons from small veins on
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fell in love, although her father thought both of them too young to marry. Informed by letter of his son's intentions, Captain
Audubon initially opposed the marriage. With money borrowed from the Bakewells, Audubon sailed for France in January 1805 to sort out what to do about Mill Grove and the lead
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Central to the arguments concerning politicians appears to be the controversial "Camiel Loop." Plutte said that the cost of rerouting the
Pottstown Expressway around the home of Peter J. Camiel caused the price of the highway to jump from $ 5 million to $ 8 million, and most recently to more than $
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dedicated the building on May 8, 1898, with more than 3,000 in attendance. Its initial capacity was for housing 200 boys, but the capacity increased to 500 boys with additions that opened in
September 1905. An additional 100 acres were purchased in 1902, which extended the property to the Schuylkill
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When Bakewell advertised Fatland Ford for sale in 1813, he listed "a threshing-mill, which threshes 12 bushels of barley in an hour," and livestock of "200 Sheep of the English Morena breeds, span of oxen and other cattle, 4 asses, 7 horses, ... 30 pigs of the English Berkshire breed." The sale was
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season ... Besides the dwelling house, there is an excellent kitchen, and offices adjoining; with a large barn, and stables sufficient to accommodate 40 horses and cows; all well built of stone. The estate extends the whole breadth betwixt the Schuylkill and Perkiomen. On the former river there is a
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In 2014, Mrs. Safford put the estate up for sale with an asking price of $ 9 million for the 8,900-square-foot mansion on 15 acres, with the barn on 3 acres available for a separate sale. In February 2016, the asking price was reduced to $ 7 million. The current property was sold for $ 2.74 million
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The Saffords expanded the mansion, erecting a west wing and end pavilion that mirrored the east wing and end pavilion—thus creating an overall symmetrical building (for the first time). They remodeled the mansion's interior, and filled it with sumptuous European furniture and decorative arts.
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Samuel Wetherill 3rd (1764–1829) purchased "Fatland Ford" in 1825, and changed its name to just "Fatland." He had been his father's partner, and inherited the family business. He and his wife, Rachel Price (1766–1844), had 5 sons and a daughter. Wetherill inherited Mill Grove, bought up
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of Bakewell's brother. In August 1807, he and a partner opened a pioneer store in Louisville, Kentucky. On April 8, 1808, John James Audubon and Lucy Bakewell were married at "Fatland Ford." The next morning, the newlyweds departed for Louisville, where Audubon continued his short-lived career as a
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By 1803, the farm was owned by James S. Ewing, who advertised it for sale in September. He listed its buildings: "... a dwelling-house 45x35 feet, built of stone, ... Smith's house and Shop, Ice house, spring house, poultry house, smoke house, large stone barn with stables for 40 head of horses and
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veteran who managed the family's Pennsylvania coal lands, and never married. He gave permission for William Bakewell's remains to be reinterred at Fatland, and directed that he himself be buried there. In his will, Col. Wetherill deeded the private cemetery to a trust, directed that it be expanded
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This plantation, consists of 300 acres of good land, 200 of which are cleared, and 100 covered with wood. On the estate is a well finished square stone house, about 15 yards in length, with a wide boarded floor piazza, both in back and front. These afford excellent accommodation during the summer
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Ownership of Fatland passed to the colonel's younger brother, William H. Wetherill, Jr. (1838–1927) and wife Elizabeth Proctor (1842–1914), under whom the property was "greatly beautified." He carried out the improvements to the private cemetery, and had Wetherill ancestors and others
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and formal rooms were similar to James Vaux's expanded farmhouse, but with much higher ceilings: "Fatland is special for the scale of the portico and its juxtaposed miniature service wing." The overall composition was asymmetrical, the first floor of the single wing (to the east) consisted of the
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania paid Vaux £1,000 in compensation for damage done to his property during the war. "In the 1785 assessment of Providence township, James Vaux is recorded as a farmer, owning a farm of 300 acres of land, dwelling, four horses, six cows, one servant (colored), and one
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The British army, in September, 1777, passed from Valley Forge to the left bank of the Schuylkill by the Fatland Ford; not many months later , when the American forces evacuated Valley Forge, they crossed at the same place, as just mentioned. Both armies swarmed over the Vaux Hill plantation like
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Antiquarian Harold Donaldson Eberlein wrote about Fatland in 1912. By the time he revisited the estate in 1939, the landscape had changed: "So closely is the house screened by great ancient trees that only in winter can you catch a glimpse from a distance of its stately white porticoes gleaming
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To be sold at public venue on the 4th day of March, upon the premises, if not sold before at private sale, by the subscriber, in Providence township, Philadelphia county, two valuable plantations, one of which consisting of 300 acres (Fatland farm), bounding near a mile on the Schuylkill river,
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Ewing sold the property to Englishman William Woodhouse Bakewell (1759–1821) who, with his wife, 4 daughters and 2 sons, occupied it in January 1804. Bakewell's wife, Lucy Green Bakewell (1765–1804), died during their first year living there. Their eldest daughter, also named Lucy
305:] you personally, but is employed in viewing the ground and making disposition of the Army which arrived yesterday." Vaux invited Washington to dine and stay the night—the life guard secured Fatland Ford overnight. Washington and his troops departed early the following morning.
438:], which was then worked by a Frenchman. He invited us to go down into it, where, at the depth of about 12 feet, I saw a vein of lead ore 18 inches in thickness; and as it is wrought at a very easy expense, there was a great probability of its being a very valuable acquisition."
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Vaux renamed the property "Vaux Hill." The 300-acre (121.4 hectares) farm spanned the middle of the peninsula. Part of its western boundary, shared with Henry Pawling's farm, was the road south to Fatland Ford, a shallow crossing of the Schuylkill River, opposite Valley Forge.
859:. On July 16, 1990, Robert Owen Safford (1934–2011) and his wife Barbara Harvey (b. 1947) purchased the mansion on 18 acres from Camiel for $ 2.1 million. The couple changed the name of the property back to "Vaux Hill," the name James Vaux had given it in 1772.
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The September 25, 2013 auction "brought $ 3.9 million, more than three times the presale estimate." Its top lot was a hand-painted Russian urn from Czar Nicholas I's imperial porcelain factory at St. Petersburg. Estimated at $ 150,000 to $ 200,000, it sold for $
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deposits had been discovered on the farm, and Captain Audubon formed a partnership with French businessman Francis Dacosta to mine the ore. Sutcliff wrote: "In the plantation adjoining to my relation's, we visited a lead mine on the banks of the Perkiomin
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Camiel's land sales dramatically reduced Fatland's acreage—his housing development, land for the Pottstown Expressway, and his 1979 sale of 154 acres (62.3 hectare) between the expressway and the Schyulkill River to
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devastating clouds of locusts. Tearing down fences, destroying trees and doing thousands of pounds' worth of damage in various ways, they wrought such havoc that Mr. Vaux's estate was seriously embarrassed in consequence.
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purchased a 185-acre tract of land adjacent to Fatland, to the west. Formerly part of Henry Pawling's farm, there the Archdiocese built the Philadelphia Protectory for Boys, an orphanage staffed by the
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British troops at Valley Forge from the north side of the river. The river was swollen, which prevented the British from crossing. At Washington's direction, his aide urgently wrote to General
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of the main block's porticoes were of white marble. The mansion was completed about 1845. A stone tablet in its south gable reads: "J. Vaux, 1776; rebuilt by William Wetherill, 1843." "
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through the interlacing branches." Dr. Henry Emerson Wetherill died at Fatland in 1946. Later that year the property was purchased by the Philadelphia Democratic politician
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was to go through the Audubon property. Camiel was credited with / blamed for applying political pressure to reroute the superhighway around the bird sanctuary:
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from 1953 to 1964, and as chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee from 1970 to 1976. He was appointed one of five commissioners to the powerful
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passenger station opposite the west end of the peninsula was changed to Protectory Station, by 1898. The protectory was renamed Saint Gabriel's Hall in 1962.
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encampment. Most of the troops were quartered south of the river, but Vaux's farm was the site of troop encampments and support facilities. General
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immigrants, a former boxer, longshoreman and union organizer. He made himself a millionaire as a wholesale beer distributor. Camiel served as a
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designed a "western counterpart" for Dr. Wetherill, "Fatland Hall," overlooking the Schuylkill River. The size and arrangement of the mansion's
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expedition, on which he collected plant specimens. He also delivered
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formal dining room, and pantries and the family dining room in the
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Portrait of a Colonial City: Philadelphia 1670–1838
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208:who supported the Revolutionary War.
7:
33:The Fatland Mansion in November 2013
1666:David Iames, "The Vaux Hill Sale,"
1295:, (Lewis Publishing Company, 1911).
180:. Located on the north side of the
14:
1385:Journal of the Franklin Institute
741:Camiel was one of 12 children of
280:, accompanied by a detachment of
276:. On September 21, 1777, General
1589:"Selected Contents of Vaux Hill"
1531:, February 5, 1991, pp. 116-119.
841:
829:
820:
754:Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
582:Free Quaker - Wetherill Cemetery
27:
368:William and Lucy Green Bakewell
265:Vaux was an English farmer and
188:, the property was part of the
122:
1374:, from The Franklin Institute.
835:Selected Contents of Vaux Hill
317:Valley Forge Park and Vicinity
1:
1236:Old Roads Out of Philadelphia
1006:Abstract - Vaux Family Papers
683:Wilson Brothers & Company
331:supervised construction of a
1513:, from Saint Gabriel's Hall.
1668:Antiques & Auction News
1578:, September 23, 1976, p. 1.
1399:, from Library of Congress.
1254:The History of Valley Forge
1114:Harold Donaldson Eberlein,
693:, or belltower. Archbishop
653:also was moved to Fatland.
639:Declaration of Independence
631:Second Continental Congress
16:American mansion and estate
1797:
802:National Historic Landmark
750:Pennsylvania State Senator
672:On November 19, 1895, the
148:stuccoed brick & stone
1633:The Philadelphia Inquirer
1497:Athenaeum of Philadelphia
1489:Roman Catholic Protectory
1084:, from National Archives.
1070:Vaux-Wetherill Stone Barn
840:
828:
819:
272:Vaux took no side in the
38:
26:
1766:Houses completed in 1845
1761:Houses completed in 1776
1473:Joseph Louis J. Kirlin,
1232:The Norristown Newspaper
1220:Audubon and His Journals
1160:The Norristown Newspaper
1148:The Norristown Newspaper
947:Francis Hobart Herrick,
351:Pennsylvania Legislature
234:The Pennsylvania Gazette
196:and British General Sir
1776:John Haviland buildings
1372:Henry Emerson Wetherill
1320:Main Line Suburban Life
1198:Stanley Clisby Arthur,
1036:National Park Service,
397:sterling, which is but
157:Design and construction
1563:The Pittsburgh Tribune
1527:"Senate Resolution ,"
917:Thaddeus Vanderslice,
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419:Sutcliff also visited
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1717:Jennifer Anne Stark,
1688:, September 18, 2014.
1686:Philadelphia Magazine
1576:The Pottstown Mercury
1495:(PAB) project of the
1453:, September 14, 2009.
1429:Charles E. Peterson,
1322:, September 18, 2013.
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728:
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589:
506:Possibly inspired by
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315:
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178:Audubon, Pennsylvania
150:wooden square columns
100:40.11917°N 75.44306°W
70:Audubon, Pennsylvania
1635:, November 20, 1979.
1218:John James Audubon,
789:Pottstown Expressway
767:Pottstown Expressway
660:Saint Gabriel's Hall
659:
610:of their religion, "
415:Mill Grove, in 2012.
152:marble Ionic columns
116:Construction started
1726:Rebecca Anne Hunt,
1704:, February 8, 2016.
1552:, February 2, 1991.
1413:Charles Wetherill,
1291:John Woolf Jordan,
647:Green Mountain Boys
645:, one of Vermont's
637:can be seen in the
333:floating-log bridge
297:Alexander McDougall
105:40.11917; -75.44306
96: /
48:Architectural style
43:General information
1670:, October 8, 2013.
1550:The New York Times
1360:The New York Times
1334:George E. Thomas,
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707:juvenile detention
679:Christian Brothers
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604:Society of Friends
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572:Franklin Institute
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443:John James Audubon
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61:1248 Pawlings Road
1681:Angelly Carrión,
1565:, March 31, 2013.
1387:, September 1908.
1174:Robert Sutcliff,
867:on May 28, 2021.
852:
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777:Montgomery County
695:Patrick John Ryan
278:George Washington
274:Revolutionary War
194:George Washington
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761:Vince Fumo
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91:75°26′35″W
88:40°07′09″N
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564:Greenland
548:Civil War
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132:Renovated
124:Completed
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