From Oct. 24, 2011, Charlotte (NC) Observer.This continues from yesterday's post.
For the past ten years, the Army Corps of Engineers has been digging up ordnance near the town of Butner, north of Durham, at the former World War II Camp Butner, a 40,000 acre Army post in Person, Granville and Durham counties.
When the war ended, Camp Butner was still in a largely rural and undeveloped area, and much of the explosive materials was simply buried and left behind when the Army left it. But, there has been a lot of growth and residents in new subdivisions began find explosives in their yards, and even beside their homes.
In the 50s and 60s, the Army came back and began looking for their explosives.
Mighty Neighborly of Them. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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