The Washington Crossing Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (WCDAR)(DAR), will dedicate a memorial bench erected in the Langhorne Borough Revolutionary War Burial Site, located at S. Bellevue & Flowers Avenue, at 10 am on October 19. They will present the DAR “Excellence in Historic Preservation Certificate and Medal” to the Langhorne Borough in gratitude for their dedication in saving this hallowed ground.
Approximately 166 Continental Soldiers were interred at this site from the first and second Battles of Trenton and the Battle of Princeton. The first soldier being buried in 1776 and the last in 1777 in unmarked graves.
The findings collected from an archaeological survey done in 1992 solidified the Revolutionary War Burial Site with some of the evidence including rose-head coffin nails aligned vertically to attached wood fragments.
So, please join us in honoring these brave soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for independence and to formally thank the Borough of Langhorne for their dedication in protecting some of our earliest American history.
Any woman 18 years or older who can prove lineal, bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence in the Revolutionary War is eligible to join the DAR. Please contact us through our website https://www.washingtoncrossingdar.org/. Meetings take place in Newtown and are open to members and prospective members.