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Thousand of worshippers have heard sermons in this outdoor pavilion, the tabernacle, at Penn Grove Campground in southwestern York County. The camp meeting was a rite of summer for thousands…

A group of Scouts sits along Conewago Creek in Strinestown-area’s Camp Ganoga in this undated photograph. The old Boy Scout camp, which closed after World War II, accommodated diverse groups…

A Revolutionary War prisoner of war camp grew up near the present 204th Street in New York City. York County history spokesman believe a local camp, Camp Security in present-day…

…and Betty Waughtel). • Secretaries and administrative assistants (Lucille Brown, Elaine Betty Byers, Virginia Nadine Clement, Jean E. Demmitt, Doris Eades, Mary Elizabeth Fellabaum, Glenda E. Gilbert, Doris M. Gotwalt,…

…camp. From 1781 to 1783, more than 2,000 British prisoners, many from the Battle of Saratoga decided in 1777, were detached to the camp. Many came from Charlottesville, Va., then…

…Fewer are aware that York County played host to a second prisoner of war camp — Camp Stewartstown in World War II. More than 2,000 German prisoners camped there in…

…and John, are all buried in North York’s Lebanon Cemetery. County’s second POW camp: A fight between a developer and preservationists over the Camp Security site in Springettsbury Township has…

…That ties to a history of Camp Betty Washington in the files of the York County Heritage Trust. The Episcopal Church camp that loaned its name to the road intersecting…

…Pa.: America’s first capital of golf? – Where was the site of Camp Betty Washington, along the road so named? – 19th-century mines gave Ore Valley its name. Edited, 11/10/10…

…camp, produced this York Sunday News piece: Help preserve Camp Security. “York County’s recent grant of $150,000 towards the purchase of the Rowe farm – which was a part of…