Camp Security was probably similar to this Charlottesville, Virginia Revolutionary War prisoner-of-war camp. Some of Camp Security’s prisoners were previously detained at the Charlottesville camp. “At York they were kept in huts newly constructed, also surrounded by a high stockade, and were also strictly guarded. At a little distance from,
I gave a brief overview in my recent York Sunday News column of Camp Security, the 1781-1783 Revolutionary War prisoner of war camp just east of York. The whole column is at the end of this post. Camp Security is the last remaining prisoner of war camp in the United
My recent York Sunday News column concerning Revolutionary War pension applications from Militia Guards at Camp Security is below. In it I briefly recap how the prisoners of war came to be at Camp Security with York County militiamen serving as their guards much of the time. Besides reviewing information
The hunt goes on for the various components that made up Camp Security, the Revolutionary War camp established to detain British prisoners in York County. Specific areas of interest, such as the palisaded stockade and the village for the captives accompanied by families, will eventually be located by careful research
The Friends of Camp Security organization, of which I am a board member, is holding a public meeting Tuesday March 22 at 6:30 p.m. at the Springettsbury Township building, 1501 Mount Zion Road, York. Information on the upcoming 2016 archaeology dig at the site of the Revolutionary War prisoner-of-war camp
You may have seen the recent article and also the editorial in the York Daily Record concerning the final push by the Friends of Camp Security to raise the funds to repay the Conservation Fund for the 2012 purchase of 47 acres at the heart of site. (Click here for
In the past we have shared the overall history of Camp Security, York’s Revolutionary War prisoner-of-war camp. We have heard snippets of accounts of the camp, in their own words, from the pension applications of local militiamen who served as guards. This link will take you to those previous posts.
Some volunteers are still needed for the 2019 Camp Security dig, which starts in less than three weeks. No experience is necessary, but volunteers do need to fill out the Volunteer Registration Form and submit it quickly. The form is posted on the Friends of Camp Security website homepage: www.campsecurity.org.
Virginians (camp shown above) didn’t want to give up prisoners-of-war, but we got them I am encouraged that Springettsbury Township has approved some funds to aid in the acquisition of the land known as the Rowe farm. Part of Camp Security, the only Revolutionary War prisoner-of-war camp that has not
On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis’s army surrendered his army at Yorktown, Virginia. That American victory effectively ended the Revolutionary War, although it was not official until nearly two years later, when the Treaty of Paris was ratified in September 1783. Camp Security, York County’s prisoner of war