Weekly History Wrap Up: 03/09/12
March 9, 2012
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TGIF, and time for the Weekly History Wrap Up.
A conservation group is in negotiations with a local land developer in York, Pennsylvania, attempting to save the site of Camp Security, a Revolutionary War prison camp.
A Massachusetts-made Civil War cannon, first confiscated by Confederates, then later liberated by the Union army at the Battle of New Bern, North Carolina, is on its way back to Raleigh to be featured in an exhibit.
The real deal, famed World War II warbirds, visited Gulfport, Mississippi this week.
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue is on a mission to recognize Korean War veterans from her state on the 60th anniversary of the conflict.
The third and final volume of the official history of Australia in the Vietnam War, titled “Fighting to the Finish,” has been released.
Til Monday, have a historical weekend!