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…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…

…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…

…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),…

…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…

…Archives, who has studied the camp extensively presented on the camp at the York County Historical Society’s Second Saturday program. (See aerial view of the camp site – it’s actual…

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…

…change taking place in York Township’s Ore Valley. Background posts: One-room school memories flow from reader fingertips, One-room schools: ‘That’s when things were good.’ and Where did Camp Betty Washington…

…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…

…. . . to just say 31 acres is Camp Security is not reasonable,” she said. That’s because the exact location of the camp is not known, local historian Tom…

…some 600 to 900 prisoners, wives, children and camp women braced for the winter. ………. The relocation of prisoners to Camp Security proved to be unnecessary. Cornwallis surrendered his army…