"Associators"
Pennsylvania National Guard
The Rampant Lion [Image of a lion with sword and shield] Crest of the the PA National Guard.
Near this site, the Associators, a group of citizen-soldiers organized by Benjamin Franklin and predecessor to the modern Pennsylvania National Guard, established the first Pennsylvania military installation to defend the colony and the port of Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania National Guard dedicates this monument to those patriots on our two hundred fiftieth anniversary.
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