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SHARPE SALE TOTALS $8,700Camp Sharpe building* and equipment were sold for approximat ty $8,700 Thursday at public sale held on the camp propert\ along,WestConfederate avenue.The buildings brought from $15 for a .'■mall structure over the water valve, to over $400 for one of thelarger Mites. The barracks buildings brought an average oi $350 apieceFven the flagpole was sold for $20f with the pole soon to te placed in Caledonia State Park,A former German prisoner camp will be the new location for much ofthe equipment and furnishings ofthe former German prisoner camp that w,. ■ Camp Sharpe. Camp Mich-aux, n ir Pine Grove Furnace, now a church camp, but, which oncehoused German prisoners, was thepurchaser of much of the equipmentSi\ Week* lo lt;lear GroundsMam of the structures and considerable equipment was purchasedby farmers, with some planning to turn the 110-ft. barracks buildings into clucked hoi( es and similar structures. Only one group, McCoy brothers, bought more than on *building The McCoys, represent d| by J. P. McCoy, bought two buildings and a section of another.H R. McCullough, assistant director oi the State College Extension Service, and D. W, Atkinson supervisor oi the Emergenc FarmLabor program, announced that the purchasers would have six week.* in which to remove the buildings and quipment from the Camp Sharpesite After the purchase* are removed by November 22, the Emergent',,Farm Labor program will have workmen remove abutments, fill in holes and otherwise prepare the land in order that it may bo turned overto the National Park Service b December 1,The road leading into the camp will be left intact and several buildings that will be used by the National Park will be includ'd in the transfer of the property back to me jxtrk service in December.Nip ime o( itftta imi EmfliD« Kuhn*
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Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Oct 10, 1947
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