Fort Lee (Virginia)

Fort Lee
Petersburg and Tri-cities Area
Shoulder sleeve insignia and emblems of units or agencies stationed at Fort Lee
Type	U.S. Army post
Site information
Controlled by	U.S. Army
Site history
Built	1917
In use	1917–1920s? 1941–present
Garrison information
Garrison	Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)/Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE) U.S. Army Quartermaster School U.S. Army Ordnance School U.S. Army Transportation School Army Logistics University (ALU) Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA)

Fort Lee, in Prince George County, Virginia, United States, is a United States Army post and headquarters of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)/ Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE), the U.S. Army Quartermaster School, the U.S. Army Ordnance School, The U.S. Army Transportation School, the Army Logistics University (ALU), Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), and the U.S. Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA).

Fort Lee also hosts two Army museums, the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum and the U.S. Army Women's Museum. The Army's Ordnance Museum relocated to Fort Lee in 2009-2010 and has plans to return its collection to public display at Fort Lee. The fort is named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Fort Lee is also a census-designated place (CDP), with population of 3,393 at the 2010 census.

Just 18 days after a state of war with Germany was declared, the first Camp Lee was selected as a state mobilization camp and later became a division training camp.

In June 1917, building began and within sixty days some 14,000 men were on the installation.

When construction work ended, there were accommodations for 60,335 men. On 15 July 1917, the War Department announced that the camp would be named in honor of General Robert E. Lee, the most famous of the Confederate Civil War commanders.

After World War I, Camp Lee was taken over by the Commonwealth of Virginia and designated a game preserve. Later, portions of the land were incorporated into the Petersburg National Battlefield and the Federal Correctional Institution, Petersburg.