Camp Abbot
| Camp Abbot | |
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| Deschutes County, Oregon, near Bend | |
World War II combat engineer training center
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| Coordinates | 43°52′23″N 121°26′42″W / 43.873°N 121.445°WCoordinates: 43°52′23″N 121°26′42″W / 43.873°N 121.445°W |
| Type | Military cantonments |
| Site information | |
| Owner |
U.S. Forest Service - public; Sunriver Resort Limited Partnership - private |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1942 |
| Built by | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| In use | March 1943 - June 1944 |
| Demolished | ca. 1945 |
Camp Abbot was a military training center in the northwest United States, located in central Oregon south of Bend. Active for less than sixteen months, the U.S. Army camp was used to train combat engineers during World War II and was named for Henry Larcom Abbot.
A large part of site is now Sunriver Resort, and the rest has been incorporated into the Deschutes National Forest. The only remaining structure from Camp Abbot is the officers' mess hall; now part of the resort and known as the Great Hall, it is used for large conferences and special events.
In 1855, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis dispatched an Army Corps of Topographical Engineers survey party to look for a railroad route from the Sacramento Valley in California to the Columbia River in the Oregon Territory. This required the party to survey the Deschutes River area in central Oregon. The survey party was led by two lieutenants, and Henry Larcom Abbot.
The Williamson-Abbot survey party included a geologist-botanist, a physician-naturalist, several assistant engineers, a computation specialist, a pack master, and eighteen mule packers. At Fort Reading, a military escort of eighty infantrymen and twenty cavalry troopers joined the party. The escort was commanded by Lieutenant H. G. Gibson with Lieutenants George Crook and Philip H. Sheridan leading elements of the detachment.
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