The surrender of Lord Cornwallis to General George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown on October 19, 1781, rang in the end of the American War of Independence. In the summer and fall of that year, thousands of American and French forces had walked, ridden, and sailed almost 700 miles along the eastern seaboard. In 2009 Congress designated the land and sea-lanes through nine states from New England to Virginia the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail.
The hundreds of cities, towns and hamlets they passed through – we call them “Victory Towns” – stretch from Rhode Island through New York to Virginia. The Continental Army and its French allies marched from the cities of Newport and Providence, Rhode Island through Hartford, Connecticut; Trenton, New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wilmington, Delaware; and Baltimore, Maryland. And they marched through Manville, earning your city the designation as a “Victory Town.”
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