The Washington Rochambeau Trail, with Julie Diddell

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This presentation is about The Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail. It is a 680 mile-long land and water corridor that runs through Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC. Authorized by Congress in 2009, so visitors can understand the national significance of the joint action taken by Washington’s and Rochambeau’s allied armies in the longest march and complex military maneuver of the Revolutionary War. The Trail is a unit of the National Trail System administered by the National Park Service.

The Trail passes through several Union County towns including Plainfield, Springfield, Summit, Mountainside, Westfield, Fanwood and Scotch Plains.

W3R-NJ is a 501c3 non-profit organization that is working to identify, research, commemorate and preserve the New Jersey routes and associated historic sites used by allied troops during 1780-1783 for the Yorktown, VA campaign along the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail. www.w3r-nj.org

Speaker, Julie Diddell is the Executive Director for W3R-NJ. A Westfield resident, Ms. Diddell is also the Organizing Regent for the newly forming Washington-Rochambeau Trail Chapter for the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.

This program is co-hosted with the Historical Society of Plainfield / Drake House Museum.

Our programs are funded in part by a generous donation from the Genealogical Society of the West Fields, operating support grants from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State - additionally through a grant administered by the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, Department of Parks and Recreation; and by 2025 HEART (History, Education, Arts Reaching Thousands) Grants from the Union County Board of County Commissioners.