Description: From December 1777 to June 1778, a farm house owned by the Havard family in Tredyffrin Township was used as quarters for a French engineering officer named Louis Lebeque Duportail who served with the American Army as a Brigadier General. In 1904 photographer Lucy Sampson captured the home in very good shape with even the picket fence intact. The structure today is located in the Chesterbrook subdivision at the intersection of Chesterbrook Boulevard and Adams Drive. - Herb Fry and Roger Thorne
Photographer/artist: Lucy Sampson
Date taken: ~ 1904
Photo location:
Type: photo
Subject: House
Township: Tredyffrin
Source: Herb and Barbara Fry Collection
Also in Valley Forge: A Chronicle of American Heroism by Frank Taylor (1905). Available online at Hathitrust.org
References: The Generals' Quarters in the 18th Century Tredyffrin section of the web site.
