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This is really wierd because Glen Trimmer is my dad's best friend and he got me and my whole family involved in this. They went to school together at the Army War College in Pennsylvania. Mr Trimmer is the coolest historian type person. His house is amazing because of all the different artifacts he has found. He goes around to farms and camps where there were battles with a metal detector and finds all kinds of things. His house is like a museum with everything from millions of bullets to lock of hair from the union army. He also has a real working cannon out front of his house that he sets off on special occasions. When he was working to save the camp land, he called my dad and we went and walked around the land. There had been two camps/forts. They were pretty cool. The builders had destroyed one and there was one left. It was sad to think that the builders could be so stupid to not notice the fort and see that it was something of significance. It was so obvious, even i knew that it was something special. The land was built up in a slope and it looked kind of like a steep wall that went around in a large square. I also saw the grave sites. They werent like actual graves with tomb stones but they were like indents in the ground and you could tell there was something there. Anyways, Glenn worked against the builders to get them to reserve the land, and they won of course. I had to get up really early in the morning one day last winter to go to the dedication ceremony of the grounds. There were a bunch of people there who are all about preservation and stuff. Glenn had gotten a huge star monument type of thing and they put it up right in front of the land. It has the name of the battalion that camped there on the star and some other stuff but i cant really remember. It was cool to be a part of that and be able to see it all, but it made me realize that we need to be more aware of our sorroundings and history, because we are living on the same land that people from hundreds of years ago did.