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By Kurt Repanshek - August 5th, 2022

General Washington's office at Morristown/National Parks Traveler

During his stay in New Jersey during the cold winter of 1778-79, General George Washington lived in the Ford Mansion. This sprawling, three-story home had been built just several years earlier for Jacob Ford, Jr.

The Continental Army, meanwhile, hunkered down nearby in a place called Jockey Hollow, where the soldiers chopped down more than 600 acres of trees to build more than 1,000 small log huts and to keep warming fires burning through the days and nights.

Washington spent six months in the mansion, which you'll find at Morristown National Historical Park in central New Jersey. The accommodations, and duration of his stay, allowed his wife, Martha, to join her husband through the winter and into the summer. During a guided tour of the mansion you'll see the dining room where the Washingtons entertained guests; their bedroom with its four-post, curtained bed; the study were the general worked on his war plans and wrote letters to Congress, beseeching the government to better outfit the thread-bare and starving troops, and; the spacious kitchen laid out as it might have been as servants worked on meals for the general.

You can explore the mansion via this video:

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