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Fort Douglas (initially called Camp Douglas) was established in October 1862, during the American Civil War, as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah. Its purpose was to protect the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route .
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES, also referred to as The Exchange and post exchange/PX or base exchange/BX) provides goods and services at U.S. Army, Air Force, and Space Force installations worldwide, operating department stores, convenience stores, restaurants, military clothing stores, theaters and more nationwide and in more than 30 countries and four U.S. territories.
English: The Fort Douglas Post Cemetery as seen in September 2020. The post cemetery is located in the hills east of Salt Lake City, Utah. This photograph was taken just days before the 2020 Utah windstorm which brought hurricane-force winds to the area, knocking down trees and destroying historic headstones in the cemetery.
The exact population of German POWs in World War I is difficult to ascertain because they were housed in the same facilities used for German-American internment, but there were known to be 406 German POWs at Fort Douglas and 1,373 at Fort McPherson. [5] [6] The prisoners built furniture and worked on local roads.
An exchange is a type of retail store found on United States military installations worldwide. Once similar to trading posts , today they resemble modern department stores or strip malls . The terminology varies by armed service; some examples include base exchange ( BX ), and post exchange ( PX ), and there are more specific terms for subtypes ...
The opulent W. Lancaster post office, with New Deal-era murals and Beaux Arts flourishes, is a Fort Worth landmark. But there’s more than what the public usually sees. Check out what’s hidden ...
Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]
Col. John Wilcox, Fort Liberty’s garrison commander, said during Wednesday’s meeting that getting around punishment by parking off post seems to be the “stream of logic” that speeders use ...