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| George and Martha Washington stand in the front
hallway of the Ford Mansion, where the Washington’s stayed over 235 years ago. NPS photo. |
On Saturday, February 21st, and Sunday, February 22nd, reenactors from the 2nd New Jersey Regiment portrayed Continental soldiers and officers at the Wick House, which became a military headquarters during the winter of 1779-1780. Visitors learned what it was like during the “Hard Winter” as well as the roles that officers, soldiers, and civilians played during the Jockey Hollow Encampment.
Also on Sunday, America’s founding couple, George and Martha Washington, returned to Morristown, 235 years after they spent the hard winter of 1779-1780 at the Theodosia Ford Mansion. This free program, which was given in cooperation with the Jacobus Vanderveer House & Museum in Bedminster, New Jersey, was funded by a grant from the Anne L. and George H. Clapp Charitable and Educational Trust.
Re-enactors portraying George and Martha Washington reminisced about that challenging time in American history and provided a first-hand account of the anxieties associated with the discomforts of that winter, as well as their much larger, shared task of keeping the spirits of the American ideal from falling victim to a winter which nearly stopped the Army in its tracks.
This entry by Vanessa Smiley, Chief of Interpretation.
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