Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 12:05 PM Subject: Hopewell Furnace > Is anyone doing research on Hessian prisoners or others that might have > worked in the iron mining/furnace industry? > Hopewell Furnace in Berks County worked some of the Hessians according > to Retzer's "Hessian POW's in Reading, Revisited". Hopewell is run by the > National Park Service and has a data base and microfilm of the Furnace > records but it is not available unless you are at the Park. > If anyone is in that proximity i would greatly appreciate any help in > the records. The Park Service does not do personal research. > My possible surnames are: DAMMEYER and DORMEYER. > Thank you, > Ann > agatha1@flash.net

For your info: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Banzhoff" <shabanz@earthlink.net> To: <MDWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:45 PM Subject: [MDWASHIN] POWs at Fort Frederick >The following is a quote from "MARYLAND - The Seventh State , A History >by >John T. Marck, 4th Edition: > >Fort Frederick is located about 13 miles west of Hagerstown in Big Pool, >MD. >It was one of the last forts built at the time of the French and Indian War >(1754-1763). The stone fort was named in honor of Maryland's Lord >Proprietor, Frederick Calvert, Sixth Lord Baltimore, and erected by >Governor >Horatio Sharpe in 1756 to protect the English settlers against the French >and their Indian allies. Most forts during this period were built of wood >and earth and were small in size but Fort Frederick is unique because of >its >size and its strong stone stockade walls. Though never attacked by the >French, the Fort did serve as an important supply base for various English >campaigns. > >In 1763, an Ottawa Indian Chief named Pontiac staged a massive Indian >uprising. It was during this uprising that several hundred settlers and a >militia force sought protection at the fort. > >During the American Revolution, Fort Frederick saw service again as a >refuge >for settlers and as a prison camp for Hessian and British soldiers. In >1791, the State of Maryland sold the Fort and for the next on hundred >thirty-one years, the land was used for farming. During the Civil War, >Union troops occupied the Fort and fought a brief skirmish with Confederate >raiders on Christmas Day, 1861. This was the only military engagement Fort >Frederick has seen. Nelda Pax et bonum! Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/ http://doodleartgraphics.com