VALLEY FORGE, Pa., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania is angry over the federal government's negligence of Valley Forge National Historical Park.
Pennsylvania sold the park to the federal government in 1976 and Gov. Edward G. Rendell says officials need to step up to the plate or give it back, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Wednesday.
Rendell suggested the federal government return the park to Pennsylvania in a letter to Interior Secretary Gale Norton last week, the newspaper said.
If the United States "is unwilling or unable to protect and preserve Valley Forge... the commonwealth is prepared to accept that responsibility," Rendell wrote. "One option is to return Valley Forge in its entirety to the care of the commonwealth. I would be amenable to that approach."
An spokesman for the Interior Department said Norton hasn't gotten the letter yet.
The letter is the latest salvo in an ongoing battle between the federal Park Service and the American Revolution Center over the cost and size of what is supposed to be the first national museum dedicated solely to the Revolutionary War, the newspaper said.
