View of Jockey Hollow in Winter
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5/19/2015
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When the Army arrived at Jockey Hollow, there was already a foot of snow on the ground. Doctor James Thacher, whose journal is one of the best sources of first person descriptions of events during the war, wrote: "The weather for several days has been remarkably cold and stormy. On the 3rd instance, we experienced one of the most tremendous snowstorms ever remembered; no man could endure its violence many minutes without danger to his life. ... When the storm subsided, the snow was from four to six feet deep, obscuring the very traces of the roads by covering fences that lined them. " In March he wrote: "...an immense body of snow on the ground � there had been four snowfalls in February and March brought six more. "
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Jockey Hollow, Harsh Winter, General George Washington, Morristown National Historical Park, Historic Morristown, Harding Township, Mendham Township, National Historical Park, The American Revolution, American History, US History, U.S. Historic district Contributing property, New Jersey Register of Historic Places, George Washington, Continental Army, Winter Encampment, History, Morristown, Morris County, The American Revolution in New Jersey, The Skylands, New Jersey Skylands, NJ Skylands, Lakeland, New Jersey, NJ, Jersey, The Garden State
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