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The merged company was named the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL) and the line was then known as the New Bern Subdivision. [8] The Seaboard Coast Line abandoned the New Bern Subdivision in 1985. [9] Some of the Camp Lejeune Subdivision near the base was incorporated into the Camp Lejeune Railroad, which is still in place. [6]
Seaboard is a town in Northampton County, North Carolina, United States, created as a company town by the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, approximately 10 miles northeast of Weldon in the mid-1840s as a place for railroad employees to live. [4] The population was 632 at the 2010 census.
Courthouse Bay is a subdivision of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and is home to the Marine Corps Engineer School, 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, and the 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion. Located near Camp Lejeune's southwestern Sneads Ferry gate, the sub-camp is largely self-sufficient, in that it has its own chow hall, post exchange , MWR ...
Twenty former residents of Camp Lejeune—all men who lived there during the 1960s and the 1980s—have been diagnosed with breast cancer. [13] In April 2009, the United States Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry withdrew a 1997 public health assessment at Camp Lejeune that denied any connection between the toxicants and illness. [44]
The northeastern side of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune borders the community. The main roads in Hubert are Freedom Way, Hubert Boulevard, Sand Ridge Road, Riggs Road, and Queens Creek Road. [3] The ZIP Code for Hubert is 28539. [4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the Hubert ZIP Code has an area of 48.96 square miles. [citation ...
Nov. 8—From the 1950s through the mid-1980s, water at and around Camp Lejeune, a Marine base on the coast of North Carolina, was contaminated with numerous carcinogenic and harmful chemicals. In ...
The sweeping study tracked the fates of more than 400,000 service members and others who were stationed at either Camp Lejeune or Camp Pendleton between October 1972 and December 1985 and known to ...
Camp Gilbert H. Johnson is a satellite camp of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina and home to the Marine Corps Combat Service Support Schools (MCCSSS), where various support military occupational specialties such as administration, supply, logistics, finance, Navy corpsman and motor transport maintenance are trained.