**Morristown: The Crucible of American Independence**
PEOPLE
KEY EVENTS
The Hard Winter: Second Encampment at Morristown
Dec 1779
First Winter Encampment at Morristown
Jan 1777
Supply Crisis and Starvation at Jockey Hollow
Jan 1780
Continental Army Returns to Morristown for Second Encampment
Dec 1779
Continental Army Arrives in Morristown
Jan 1777
Pennsylvania Line Mutiny
Jan 1781
PLACES TO VISIT
STORIES
HISTORICAL VOICE
A Private Soldier's Winter
Joseph Plumb Martin was nineteen years old during the Hard Winter at Morristown. He had already served three years in the Continental Army — long enough to lose any illusions about glory. What he had ...
MODERN VOICE
What the Hut Sites Remember
Everyone knows Valley Forge. Almost no one knows Morristown. That's the first thing I tell visitors, and you can see it register — a mixture of surprise and guilt, as if they've been caught not doing ...