The Workizer, Thropp Cone Families
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Excerpt from The Workizer, Thropp Cone Families: Biographical Notes Concerning Their Relations to Historical Events in the Schuylkill Valley and at Valley Forge Valley creek is the name of a little tributary which the Schuylkill River receives from the south through a verdant valley about twenty miles northwest of Philadelphia. Half a mile up that creek, on its west bank, there stood, a century and a quarter ago, a smithy, where the fire sparkled and glowed at the bellows´ breath, and where the swarthy workman´s hammer rang out upon the sounding anvil its notes of honest industry as it fashioned the glowing plowshare or horseshoe, nail or bolt. To the countrymen round about, this workshop of their modern Vulcan was known as the Valley Forge. Had it not been for events which occurred thereabouts of vital importance to our national life, the name "Valley Forge" would possess no more significance to the American mind than the name of Greenwood Furnace, Eagle Foundry, Blair´s Mills, or any other village grown up around a similar center of industry. But the same fundamental cause which brought hither this institution of peaceful labor in order that its great mill-wheel might be turned by the running stream - for the Forge was also a grist-mill - also brought hither in the winter of 1777 and 1778 those hardy sons of Liberty, who, though lovers of peace and the pursuits of peace, now carried the implements of war that their Liberty might be secured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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