…camps scattered throughout the U.S., most in the southern states to save money from heating the camps in the winter. There were 15 camps in Pennsylvania. The main one was…
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…this past week, a visit to the former Camp Stewartstown site showed a different kind of use. It was swarming with young athletes playing at the public park beside Stewartstown…
…York, too. Penn Grove Camp, host of hordes of campers in its heyday, sits somewhat forgotten in southwestern York County. Parts of the camp have been restored (see story below),…
…the Revolutionary War era Camp Security – is a very generous acknowledgment of York County and American history,” she wrote. “Camp Security is believed to be the last undeveloped Revolutionary…
…the camp,” he wrote. “Each year the walkway sections were stored at the end of the camp to save them from ice. The next spring the staff cut trees for…
Camp Security, in present-day Springettsbury Township, probably resembled this British prisoner-of-war encampment in Charlottesville, Va. Some prisoners from this camp moved to Camp Security in 1781 when Cornwallis’ redcoats moved…
…Interchange, Camp Betty Washington Road has been in the news. What was Camp Betty Washington and who loaned her name to the camp? An unsourced document in York County Heritage…
In two wars, York County has played a reticent host to prisoners of war. Not surprisingly, York countians fretted over the occupants of both camps — Camp Security in the…
…Camp Scott gave way to Camp Curtin near the rail hub of Harrisburg, located more safely on the east side of the Susquehanna River. The Camp Curtin Historical Society, sponsor…
…Camp Betty Washington Road this morning … in search of the old Camp Betty Washington pool. It has been at least 40 years since I saw the remains of the…