A knee buckle from a uniform containing fabric and human blood ... and was placed on permanent display in the park. Relics from Hessian soldiers were found in that first official dig at the ...

But the long pull of history won't let go: He continues to volunteer on the Friends of the Hessian Barracks committee ... along with the architectural and material features of the original ...

construction techniques and materials or archaeological work to examine the subsurface area around the building.” Hessian remains unearthed at Revolutionary War battle site But that’s about to ...

Significant among the early innovators were James H. de W. Waller (1884-1968) who in 1934 patented a fabric-formed system using hessian (burlap) fabric for numerous building components and in 1948 ...

“This is really an opportunity to expand our knowledge of the Hessian forces — about their material culture, about the men themselves,” Mr. Catts said. The American soldiers defending the ...

Next up: They hope to locate descendants of the Hessian mercenaries left in a mass grave after a failed attack on an American fort in October 1777. That could allow genealogists to go back more ...