2023 Camp Charlotte findings

This past spring Camp Charlotte contracted Ohio Valley Archeological Incorporated (OVAI) to come in and to conduct a magnetometer survey of an area that with certainty was part of the location of Lord Dunmore’s camp where negotiations were conducted with the Ohio Indian tribes after their defeat at what is now Point Pleasant West Virginia. Rick Hartinger has spent 16 years researching information that narrowed this location down. The survey was conducted February 13th and 14th on nearly 9 acres of property owned by a local farmer. This endeavor is in support of the 250th celebration.

As recorded in documentation, Lord Dunmore came upon a location that he decided to make camp. He removed the bark of a tree and in red wrote “Camp Charlotte”