Rowan Museum Executive Director Aaron Kepley said battles during the Revolutionary War period would stop while it was raining normally as well. Reenactors still use muzzle-loading, flintlock rifles.

Rowan Museum on Saturday hosted its second annual Revolution in the Backcountry event at the grounds of Rowan County’s oldest homestead, which was built by German immigrant Michael Braun in 1766.

Then on June 26, 2022, at approximately 2 p.m., a discovery was made of a mass Revolutionary War battlefield grave in recently purchased land at Red Bank Battlefield Park in Gloucester County. “I was ...

NATIONAL PARK, N.J. – A public archaeological dig turned up the remains of Revolutionary War soldiers at Red Bank Battlefield Park.. Gloucester County officials announced the unexpected find at ...

CAMDEN, N.C. (AP) - A historic marker honoring a Revolutionary War leader from Camden County is standing in a new location after being taken down for a highway project. The Daily Advance of ...

Bob Gilliam, a self-proclaimed history buff, and his wife donated $20,000 to help researchers and Rowan University students identify the soldiers found in a mass grave near the Fort Mercer Trench.

Rowan University researchers said the remains came from as many as 14 soldiers who died during the Battle of Red Bank in Oct. 1777, one of the worst defeats suffered by Hessian forces during the war.

Bob Gilliam, a self-proclaimed history buff, and his wife donated $20,000 to help researchers and Rowan University students identify the soldiers found in a mass grave near the Fort Mercer Trench.