On this site stood the George Frederick Beckel House, 1762-1872, where the Marquis de Lafayette convalesced from a leg wound suffered at the Battle of the Brandywine, 1777
The plaque mark the location where stood a farm house owned and occupied by George Frederick Beckel where Marquis de Lafayette convalesced after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777.
"On this site stood the George Frederick Beckel House, 1762-1872, where the Marquis de Lafayette convalesced from a leg wound suffered at the Battle of the Brandywine, 1777"