Camp Wadsworth

Camp Wadsworth is a South Carolina historical marker in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, dedicated 1969.

Spartanburg County · dedicated 1969 · At the head of the Willis Road Pedestrian Path, Westside Club, 501 Willis Rd., Spartanburg, Spartanburg

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This camp, named in honor of Brigadier General James Samuel Wadsworth, U.S.V., was approved June 1917 as a cantonment site. The 27th division trained here from September 1, 1917 to May 4, 1918; the 6th, from May 10, 1918 to June 23, 1918; the 96th, from October 20, 1918 to January 7, 1919.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
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Camp Wadsworth

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