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[edit] Underground storage

The History Channel recently aired a program that touched on Fort Mifflin. "Freemason Underground". Cities of the Underworld. [[June 25]]. No. 10, season 1.
The program shows a recently discovered (August 2006) series of underground rooms near the wall of the fort, which they are calling casement 11.
The narrator speculated they may have been originally designed during the forts construction for ammunition storage. But, based on inscriptions on the walls, they were used as a prison during the American Civil War, including a prison for William H. Howe, the only man hung at the fort during that war.

This appearance is also discussed on the Old Fort Mifflin Historical Society webpage (http://www.fortmifflin.com/?q=node/1448) And see (http://bvcwrt.home.comcast.net/newsletters/signal-flag-2006-12.pdf) page 6 for a writeup of the discovery.

I'm not sure exactly how to incorporate this information into the article, so hopefully someone will make an attempt. If not I'll make an attempt when I get a chance. - Occasional Reader 02:06, 29 June 2007 (UTC)