…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…
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…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…
…it operated, its official name was Glenview Camp, Co. 2318, Camp SCS-7. Franklin D. Roosevelt established the CCC during the Depression to create jobs and protect natural resources, particularly to…
The historical marker explaining Camp Security is one of at least nine roadside monuments are missing from York County. In 2009, it was replaced by a new marker. Background post:…
…might contain a piece of Camp Security, the former prisoner of war camp from the American Revolution. A York Daily Record/Sunday News story bearing this news gives this background about…
Camp Ganoga hasn’t operated since 1945, but the old Strinestown-area Boy Scout camp continues to evoke memories. Here, a group of Scouts sits on the Camp Ganoga waterfront – Conewago…
…the wounded taken to the military hospital in York. · Camp Security, Revolutionary War prisoner-of-war camp. · Camp Stewartstown, World War II POW camp. · James Smith, Declaration of Independence…
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…
…about Camp Stewartstown, a prisoner of war camp in that southeastern York County town, that housed about 2,000 German prisoners in the summers of 1944 and 1945. … Betty and…