Camp Adair Cantonment

Camp Adair was a United States Army division training facility established north of Corvallis, Oregon, operating from 1942 to 1946. During its peak period of use, the camp was home to approximately 40,000 persons — enough to have constituted the second largest city in the state of Oregon. The camp was largely scrapped as government surplus following ter…
Camp Adair was a United States Army division training facility established north of Corvallis, Oregon, operating from 1942 to 1946. During its peak period of use, the camp was home to approximately 40,000 persons — enough to have constituted the second largest city in the state of Oregon. The camp was largely scrapped as government surplus following termination of World War II, with a portion of the site reconstituted as "Adair Air Force Station" in 1957.
  • Owner: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife · City of Adair Village · Private
  • Built: 1942
  • Open to the public: Yes
  • Built by: United States Army
  • In use: 1942-08-15 - 1943-05-10 · 1943-08-06 - 1943-11-01 · 96th Infantry Division · Deployed to Pacific Theater · 1942-09-15 - 1943-08-07 · 104th Infantry Division · Deployed to France · 1943-06-15 - 1944-07-25 · 70th Infantry Division · Deployed to France · 1943-11-02 - 1944-03-30 · 91st Infantry Division · Deployed to North Africa · 1944-07-26 - 1946-07-23 · Prisoner Of War Camp.
  • Demolished: 1946
  • Type: Military Base
Data from: en.wikipedia.org