MD-008 Bear Camp

Marker text: BEAR CAMP
General Braddock's 6th camp on the march to Fort Duquesne Saturday and Sunday June 20th and 21st, 1755. Washington was forced to remain behind with a guard on account of "violent fevers" until cured by "Dr. James's Powders (one of the most excellent medicines in the world)," he wrote his brother Augustine.

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Location: US 40 (westbound) less than a mile from Pennsylvania state line, Garrett County, Maryland

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