Experts seek out the Revolutionary dead

Using ground-penetrating radar, experts searched Saturday in Lincolnton for traces of a mass grave where 70 to 100 soldiers were buried after the Battle of Ramsour's Mill on June 20, 1780.

Terry Ferguson, program director for the geology department at Wofford College in Spartanburg sat on the stump of an oak tree old enough to have been around at the time of the battle. He watched thin, wavelike streaks crawl across a monitor screen....

"This is the most historic site in Lincoln County," said Bill Beam, who chairs the county's Historic Properties Commission. "We have so much growth in this county, and we need to make people aware of its history. They're part of the community now, and it's their history."