FORWARD TWP — The township’s plans for its sesquicentennial celebration in May 2026 will take roughly $25,000 and some cooperation from incoming supervisors to pull off.

The current supervisors are looking to move a stone monument commemorating the place where future first president George Washington was nearly shot and killed by his traveling companion during his trek through the colonies in 1753.

“There is one major event that defines Forward Township in American history and that is the attempted assassination of George Washington,” said township Supervisor Mark Wilson. “Think about what would have happened to this country had Washington not survived that ambush. That's a pivotal point in the history of this country. It's a pivotal point in the history of democracy.”

The monument, loc

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