Primary sources, maps, and field notes published in full — free to read, and open to correction.
Much of the evidence behind the books is published online in full, so that anyone can examine the same deeds, letters, maps, and photographs. Each archive below covers a single site or question in detail.
Corrections, photographs, and family connections to any of this history are genuinely welcome — a great deal of what follows came to light because a reader wrote in.
Investigates the location of the Cantonment — including barracks, huts, and a hospital — near the present-day Lehn Springs Development.
Visit Site →Explores the Rifle and Artillery Cantonments — soldiers housed in log barracks along Ellicott Creek, with a sally port leading to the Williamsville Cemetery.
Visit Site →Also known as the Garrison Cemetery — containing the graves of American and British soldiers who died in an American military hospital during the war.
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