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Ninth Reunion of the USS
Plymouth Rock
Valley Forge, PA
September 20-23
This Page Last Edited 02/10/2012
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2012
Ships Reunion
Valley Forge PA
The date for the ships reunion will be on September 20 - 23, 2012. The hotel that has been selected is the Doubletree Hotel.
Nestled on 9 landscaped acres in the community of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, this hotel offers free shuttle service to area corporate offices and the King of Prussia Mall.
Our hotel is becoming a
Doubletree which is part of the Hilton family of hotels. | Group Name: | USS Plymouth Rock Association Biennial Reunion |
| Group Code: | USS |
| Check-in: | 20-SEP-2012 |
| Check-out: | 23-SEP-2012 |
| Hotel Name: | DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Philadelphia - Valley Forge |
| Hotel Address: | 301 West DeKalb Pike |
| King of Prussia, Pennsylvania | |
| 19406 | |
| Phone Number: | 610-337-1200 |
Dolce Valley Forge Hotel features contemporary guestrooms with flat-screen TVs and free wireless internet access. Guests can also take advantage of the hotel's full-service business center, state-of-the-art fitness center and the outdoor swimming pool.
Restaurant THREE01 at the Valley Forge Dolce Hotel serves American cuisine for breakfast, lunch and dinner. In the afternoon, guests can also enjoy American bistro and comfort food in the hotel's T. Burke's Lounge. The hotel rooms number 327. The Dolce is considered the #1 place to stay in Valley Forge.
The website for the Dolce is www.dolce-valley-forge-hotel-com
Address is at : Dolce Valley Forge
301 W. Dekalb Pike
King of Prussia, PA 19406
1-877-851-5551
The room rate is $119.00 per night, this includes tickets for two $15.00 outstanding breakfast buffets. The hotel will shortly ASSIGN a unique website and toll free number to our group for you to make reservations. As soon as we have those contacts, they will be available online at the PR website & in the April newsletter. Also, about mid-January, you can call David or Rhonda Dortch for the phone & website contacts. Reservations to the Dolce must be made on or before August 29, 2012 in order to be eligible for the room rate. Guest accommodations will be available at 4:00 pm on arrival date and 12:00 pm on departure date. As of now, we have a total of 12 rooms and 24 people who will be possible attendees.
This information will be
then available on the ships website at
www.ussplymouthrock.com and
in the April 2012 newsletter.
Any questions or suggestions can by directed to the Reunion
Coordinators: Dave and Rhonda Dortch who can be reached at the following:
e-mail:
tazrhondave@yahoo.com
phone: 870-236-3725
mail: Dave and Rhonda Dortch
4009 Hickory
Cove
Paragould, AR
72450
We will have an application in the April 2012 newsletter for tours and the Banquet which will be held on the 23rd. The application along with dollar amount will be sent to the Association. Again, you will have this information available to you in the April 2012 newsletter.
We will have a hospitality room available to us with our own snacks and beverages provided by the Association. The hospitality room is non-smoking. As of August 31, 2010 all Dolce Hotels are smoke free.
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Valley Forge is the story of an army’s epic struggle to survive
Rows of cannons in Artillery Park; the soldiers’ log huts; and earthen
fortifications around the rim of the park are silent reminders of the
past. With the British army occupying Philadelphia, Continental commander
George Washington had to find a place to encamp for the winter. He chose
what seemed to be a strategic high-ridged area to the West. The winter was
fierce, and 2,000 men died without a shot fired, yet they emerged in
mid-1778 to win significant battles. Though no military battle was fought here, the six months in Valley
Forge, with its heavily-rationed supplies and awful winter, were among the
roughest for the Continental Army during the entire war. Philadelphia Naval Shipyard The Philadelphia Naval Business Center, formerly known as the
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and Philadelphia Navy Yard, was the first
naval shipyard of the United States. The U.S. Navy reduced its activities
there in the 1990s, and ended most of them on September 30, 1995. Soon
after, the west end of the site became a commercial shipyard, currently
called the Aker Philadelphia Shipyard. Presently, Navy activities there include the Naval Surface Warfare
Center Ship Systems Engineering Station, Naval Facilities Engineering
Command Mid-Atlantic Public Works Department Pennsylvania (NAVFAC MIDLANT
PWD PA) and the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), which
stores decommissioned and mothballed warships and auxiliary naval vessels.
The memorial to the Four Chaplains currently resides on the grounds of
the shipyard. From west of Philadelphia or the Pennsylvania Turnpike (Exit 24
- Valley Forge):
Valley Forge National Historical Park
Valley Forge and the Revolutionary War
Of
all the places associated with America’s War for Independence, none convey
the suffering, sacrifice and ultimate triumph of our nation more than
Valley Forge. No battles were fought here; no bayonet charges or artillery
bombardments took place. Nonetheless, some 2,000 soldiers died – more
Americans than were killed at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown
combined.
against
terrible odds, hunger, disease and the unrelenting forces of nature.