Over the years quite a few cemeteries in York County have been built over, paved over or plowed over. Sometimes the inhabitants have been moved to another cemetery, sometimes not. There have been various laws passed over the years in Pennsylvania regarding burial grounds, but, unfortunately, in my opinion, if
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,
Researching history is like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. You take little odd-shaped pieces and try to fit them together to create a complete picture. Along with others, I have been gathering information for years on Camp Security, where British prisoners of war were detained from 1781 to 1783. Click
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