Camp Cody - FortWiki
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source date: 2025
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FortWiki entry on Camp Cody. Covers the camp's establishment as one of 16 National Guard Training Camps in 1917; capacity of 28,000 officers and enlisted; construction cost of $4,300,000; Major General Augustus P. Blocksom as first commander forming the 34th US Infantry Division; the 97th US Infantry Division also training there (Sep 1918 - Nov 1919); demobilization center after the war; abandoned 1920 except for the hospital; Public Health Service hospital for veterans until 1922; Sisters of the Holy Cross reopening as TB sanitarium on May 12, 1923; burned down in 1938; coordinates: 32.275, -107.808333.