Molly Pitcher Well and Home Site

Marker at the site traditionally associated with Mary Ludwig Hays, the Carlisle-born woman who became famous as "Molly Pitcher" at the Battle of Monmouth (June 1778), where she carried water to artillerymen and, by tradition, took her husband's place at a cannon after he was wounded. Mary Ludwig Hays was a real Carlisle resident who received a Pennsylvania pension in 1822 for her Revolutionary War service. The well site and a bronze marker on West High Street commemorate her.