Rochambeau Route (Narragansett Bay to Yorktown)

Delaware County · dedicated 1954 · U.S. 13 (Morton Ave.) near Melrose Ave., E end of Chester (across from WWII Mem'l.)

After an encampment of several days in Philadelphia where French troops passed in review before Congress, the French and American armies moved toward Wilmington by the Chester Pike known then as the King's Highway. They encamped here on September 5, 1781.

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