Public Garden · Philadelphia, Philadelphia County
Morris Arboretum and Gardens of the University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania's arboretum in Chestnut Hill, with a walk through the tree canopy, a Victorian fernery and a garden railway.
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Woodmere Art Museum
Art by the city's own painters, sculptors and craftspeople, shown in a Victorian stone mansion on the edge of the Wissahickon in Chestnut Hill.
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Hope Lodge
A Georgian mansion of the 1740s, used as the army's medical headquarters during Washington's Whitemarsh encampment, and later filled by collectors with colonial and Federal furnishings.
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Fort Washington State Park
Hawk watchers crowd the observation deck each fall as raptors stream south over hills where Washington's army dug in during the autumn of 1777, weeks before Valley Forge.
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Wissahickon Valley Park
A deep, wooded gorge cut by Wissahickon Creek, with car-free Forbidden Drive along the water, the 1850s Valley Green Inn, a covered bridge and rugged trails up schist cliffs.
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Cliveden
Benjamin Chew's Germantown country house, held by British troops against Washington's attack in the Battle of Germantown in 1777, now a house museum of the National Trust.
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Awbury Arboretum
A Quaker family's former estate in Germantown, now an open landscape of old trees, meadows and ponds.
