Benjamin Franklin - Boalsburg, PA - Political Revolutions on Waymarking.com

Benjamin Franklin founded the Associators. This group, founded in Philadelphia on November 21, 1747, was made up of civilian men from Pennsylvania. The Associators fought with General Washington and the Continental Army along the Delaware River. This group later became the 1st Battilion, 111th Infantry Regiment of the US Army.


The plaque reads:

Benjamin Franklin
Founder and organizer
of the Twenty
Associator Regiments
21 November 1747
The ancestral force
of the present
Pennsylvania National Guard

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Name of the revolution that the waymark is related to: American Revolutionary War Adress of the monument: 51 Boalsburg Avenue Link that comprove that role: [Web Link] What was the role of this site in revolution?: Not listed When was this memorial placed?: Not listed Who placed this monument?: Not listed

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