South East Pennsylvania Revolutionary war sites

squirrelcop

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I wish I could go check these sites, but if I can't, I hope someone can.

I was looking for civil war railroad maps and I stumbled across this "Reconnaissance map" that is truly fascinating! It shows numerous emplacments and batterys that are on private land. Most interesting to me was the location marked: "Point where British crossed, in force, by temporary bridge of trees and rails"

I believe that this location is here:

39°52'19.3"N 75°35'46.9"W

https://www.google.com/maps/place/3...x0!7e2!8m2!3d39.8720231!4d-75.5963524!5m1!1e4
map.jpg crossing.jpg


I think this area would pour out revolutionary war artifacts!


The original map:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3822b.cw0320600/?r=0.148,1.233,0.755,0.38,0
 

VTColonialDigger

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That's cool! I wish I was closer to PA, would be interesting to check out.
 

Kray Gelder

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Great idea. Someo brandywine 1.jpg brandywine 2.png ne beat you to it. On the east side of Brandywine Creek, is a museum and conservancy center. Directly across the creek is an old railroad station converted to a small mall and business center. The surrounding acreage is posted. Google Earth.
 

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I go right through there once a month for my job will be heading that way in next couple of days gonna check it out always have a detector with me when I know I am going certain places
 

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yep sadly they will let museums and other businesses tear it up.
but swing a detector and the will arrest you :(

Good Luck with the surrounding Neighbors.
Most have been asked a Hundred times too many by now
 

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I dug the battlefield many times back in the 80's. I'm an old cat. While there are still a few farms and private properties in the area, they are in the peripheral areas of the used areas. I had permission for three places. First place found nothing, it had already been hit. 2nd place was a new then development and I found a piece of lead. Third place was more productive and found a lot of artifacts. It is now under houses. These days my digging buddies and I are hitting colonial homes that haven't stood for over 150 years and are doing well that way. The soil at the Brandywine eats pewter, so finding a regimental button is probably not going to happen.
 

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They have been moving a lot of dirt down that way lately a long stretch of the road being revamped and seemed to look like new roads on/off ramps it was nighttime kinda hard to tell
 

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