Camp Crossville

Camp Crossville is a Tennessee historical marker in Cumberland County.

Cumberland Co., Pomona,POW Camp Road, off U.S. Hwy 70,

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Opened in November 1942, one of the first prisoner of war camps during World War II, Camp Crossville housed over 1,500 German and Italian prisoners of war. Designated for officers, the camp held General Pietro Gazzeri, one of the Italian army's highest ranking officers. Also housed here were German officers of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's famed Afrika Korps. Camp Crossville was located on the Cumberland Plateau, nine miles west of Crossville on the site of the Civilian Conservation Corps camp. It closed in December 1945.

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1796 · Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1892 · Pikeville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Pikeville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1912 · Crossville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1936 · Crossville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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Camp Crossville

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