Camp Fremont

You are currently standing near what was once a massive military installation that transformed this quiet hamlet into a bustling boomtown during the First World War. Starting in the summer of nineteen seventeen, the United States Army rapidly constructed over one thousand temporary wooden buildings across more than seven thousand acres to create Camp Fremont. This base served as a primary training ground for tens of thousands of soldiers, with the local landscape chosen specifically because its rolling foothills mirrored the terrain of the French countryside where troops expected to see combat.