A group of historians were working on a patch of grass along Route 231, using metal detectors and marking potential targets with bright flags.
They found a Civil War musket ball, most likely from Camp Stanton, a training facility for black soldiers.
They had successfully fought off the erection of a 125-foot cell phone tower at the site.
There had been a brief battle there in 1812. The area was fields at the time, but it is now wooded and Route 12 cuts through it now.
Saving Those Battlefields One At a Time. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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