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Fogo Island Radar Station. Goose Bay Army Airfield. Fort McAndrew. Harbor Defenses of St. John's. Fort Pepperrell. Stephenville Army Airfield. St. Bride's Radar Station. Nevada. Camp Williston.
The Air Defense Command radar site southeast of the base is abandoned and full of junk vehicles; the buildings on it are still standing in a deteriorated state. Former parking apron at Pyote AAF, taken 2002. The property was being used by the Texas Youth Commission's West Texas State School. The former AFB family housing (small, individual ...
The Forts of Texas include a number of historical and operational military installations. For over 200 years, various groups fought over access to or control over the region that is now Texas . Possession of the region was claimed and disputed by the European powers of Spain and France , and the continental countries of Mexico , the United ...
Fort McClellan. Coordinates: 33°42′39″N 85°44′14″W. Buckner Hall at Fort McClellan in 2014. Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, is a decommissioned United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama. During World War II, it was one of the largest U.S. Army installations, training an estimated half-million ...
Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.
Philadelphia also offers homeowners with vacant lots adjacent to their properties the opportunity to purchase the lots for $1 if the property is valued at less than $15,000 and is less than 3,000 ...
A line of seven army posts was established in 1848–49 after the Mexican War to protect the settlers of West Texas and included Fort Worth, Fort Graham, Fort Gates, Fort Croghan, Fort Martin Scott, Fort Lincoln and Fort Duncan. [2] Fort Duncan was established on March 27, 1849, when Captain Sidney Burbank occupied the site with companies A, B ...
December 14, 2006. Fort D. A. Russell is the name of an American military installation near Marfa, Texas, that was active from 1911 to 1946. It is named for David Allen Russell, a Civil War general killed at the Battle of Opequon, September 19, 1864. It was established in 1911 as Camp Albert, a base for cavalry and air reconnaissance units sent ...