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    Camp Robinson and the Military on the North Shore
    Camp Robinson and the Military on the North Shore
    Camp Robinson and the Military on the North Shore
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    Camp Robinson and the Military on the North Shore

    By Ray Hanley and MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History

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    Arkansas has always been among the leading states whose people stepped up to defend the nation in times of war.


    On a few thousand acres of land across the Arkansas River from the capital city of Little Rock, this dedication is evident. Images of America: Camp Robinson and the Military on the North Shore traces the area's military history from the founding of Fort Logan H. Roots in the late 1800s through the training for World War I and World War II, when as many as 50,000 men and women were stationed at Camp Robinson at any one time. This book pays tribute to the Arkansas National Guard, which is still based at Camp Robinson and has served countless times in times of war and natural disasters. Illustrated with rare photographs spanning more than a century, Camp Robinson and the Military on the North Shore commemorates one of the proudest military training grounds in the nation's history.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateApr 14, 2014
    ISBN9781439642702
    Camp Robinson and the Military on the North Shore
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    Ray Hanley

    The authors, Little Rock brothers Ray and Steven G. Hanley, with the help of many in the community, capture not only the war but also its influence on the state�s culture for the century that followed. Ray Hanley is an executive with a global technology company, and Steven is the director of volunteer services for a major nonprofit organization serving disabled children. Between them, they have produced a daily newspaper column for 20 years and numerous Arkansas history books.

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      Camp Robinson and the Military on the North Shore - Ray Hanley

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      INTRODUCTION

      Arkansas, from its pre-statehood pioneer days, has always been among the quickest to answer the nation’s call in times of war. Cemeteries across the state hold the remains of dozens of men who fought in the Revolutionary War to grant the new nation its freedom. Most moved to Arkansas after the war, like the notable Maj. Henry Francis, hero of the Battle of King’s Mountain in South Carolina. He died in 1840 and rests in a Johnson County Cemetery.

      A visit to the Arkansas State Capitol lawn finds more evidence of the patriotism of Arkansas at the monument to the statesmen awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor from the Indian wars of the west, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.

      As remarkable as the record of Arkansas veterans that answered the call to battle is, so too is the role a few thousand acres of land on the north shore of the Arkansas River across from Little Rock played in training countless soldiers for combat.

      The first military installation on the north shore was Fort Logan H. Roots, which rose atop a landmark cliff often just called Big Rock. The Mountain Park resort hotel opened on the site in 1887 where only a vineyard had been earlier. The view was described as the grandest in the state in June 1887 in the Arkansas Gazette. Soon after, the top of the cliff became known as Mountain Park, visited by many local citizens who believed it was at least five degrees cooler than the city of Little Rock, which was sprawled across the river. The popular park would be sacrificed in 1893 to meet the country’s military needs and, not insignificantly, boost the area’s economy.

      At the time, the area known today as North Little Rock was the sixth ward of the city of Little Rock. Mayor H.L. Fletcher and Congressman W.L. Terry—along with other civic and business leaders, such as Logan Roots, a Union army officer who marched with General Sherman and for whom the fort would be named—struck a deal to trade the mountaintop to the secretary of war in exchange for getting the Little Rock Arsenal Grounds on Ninth Street. The city got a new park much closer to most of its citizens, and the US Army got a commanding mountaintop upon which to build a new fort. The military was already in the process of closing smaller military facilities around the country, including the Little Rock Arsenal. In the swap, Little Rock got one of the much-coveted new posts that would bring many soldiers and a significant amount of money for the local economy.

      Before 1921, Fort Roots was decommissioned as an Army post and given to the US Public Health Service. By then, a new, even larger military presence had risen a few miles away in 1917. Local business leaders raised $500,000, purchased 3,000 acres, and leased another 10,000 acres northeast of Argenta (today North Little Rock). The land was donated and leased to the US Army for the purpose of building an Army training post as the clouds of war in Europe drifted closer to the United States. The base became the home of the 87th Division and had an official capacity to train just over 43,000 men from Arkansas and surrounding southern states. The base was named Camp Pike after explorer Zebulon

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