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to construct a two story barracks, six hundred and forty feet long and eighteen feet wide, for �13,000 in Virginia currency. He promised to have it completed by the last day of December, but because many of the prisoners were being dispersed to other locations or had gone out into the community, there was no pressing need for a large prison camp. So when contractual disputes arose between Colonel Kennedy and Hobday, coupled with the devaluation of currency, the work was only partially completed and construction on the Winchester Barracks came to a halt in the fall of 1778.

Two years later, by the fall of 1780, there was still no adequate facility for maintaining prisoners and Winchester became unable to cope with the housing and feeding of the increasing numbers passing through the camp. In an effort to ease the situation, sometime near the end of that year, cabins were ordered to be built, and 525 acres of land were rented four miles outside of Winchester near a town called Round Hill.

The Wiederholdt Map � Earliest Known Map of Winchester

Drawn in 1777 by Lt. Andreas Wiederholdt of the Hesse-Kassel Regiment von Knyphausen.

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