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DOCUMENT Citation Only W. Stephen McBride. George Crothers. Kim A. McBride.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper reports on recent archaeological and geophysical investigations at Cook’s Fort, Monroe County, WV, constructed by local militia in 1774 during Dunmore’s War and garrisoned by militia and used as a place of refuge by settlers throughout the Revolutionary War. During these wars this...