Revolutionary War POW camp in York County, Pa. revealing its footprint
The public can see the archaeological dig during two days in June.
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The public can see the archaeological dig during two days in June.
They found the elusive stockade in recent digs, discovering postholes where logs were tamped down vertically to form one or more stockades.
The camp housed more than 1,000 English, Scottish and Canadian privates and noncommissioned officers for 22 months during the war, starting with a group of prisoners who arrived in 1781.
Researchers say they have solved a decades-old riddle by finding remnants of the stockade and therefore the site of a prison camp in York, Pennsylvania, that housed British soldiers for nearly two years during the American Revolutionary War.
Researchers say they have solved a decades-old riddle by finding remnants of the stockade and therefore the site of a prison camp in York, Pennsylvania, that...