History

• 1917: Founded as Camp Holabird, established as as the US Army's first motor transport training center and depot in southeastern Baltimore City. It was named for Army Quartermaster General Samuel B. Holabird (1826-1907).
• 1917-1918: During World War I, Holabird supplied the American Expeditionary Force
  American Expeditionary Force
  The American Expeditionary Forces or AEF were the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe in World War I. During the United States campaigns in World War I the AEF fought in France alongside British and French allied forces in the last year of the war, against Imperial German forces...
  
   in France with Detroit-made vehicles. Thousands of military personnel were trained there to drive and repair automobiles and trucks.
• 1918 or after: Became the Holabird Quartermaster Depot.
• 2 July 1919: U.S. Navy blimp C-8 explodes while landing at Camp Holabird
  Camp Holabird
  Fort Holabird was a U.S. Army post in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It was used as an Armed Forces Examining & Entrance Station. It closed in 1973.-History:...
  
  , Maryland, injuring about 80 adults and children who were watching it. Windows in homes a mile away are broken by the blast.
• 1920: by 1920 a center for the research and development of military vehicles was established at Holabird. Here the now famous Jeep
  Jeep
  Jeep is an automobile marque of Chrysler . The first Willys Jeeps were produced in 1941 with the first civilian models in 1945, making it the oldest off-road vehicle and sport utility vehicle brand. It inspired a number of other light utility vehicles, such as the Land Rover which is the second...
  
   was tested and refined.
• 1942: Renamed as Holabird Ordnance Depot.
• 1943: Renamed as Holabird Signal Depot.
• 1947: Renamed as Camp Holabird.
• later: Renamed as a fort. The U.S. Army Intelligence School
  United States Army Intelligence Center
  The United States Army Intelligence Center of Excellence is the United States Army's school for professional training of military intelligence personnel...
  
   and Counter Intelligence Records Facility based here was closed and transferred to Fort Huachuca
  Fort Huachuca
  Fort Huachuca is a United States Army installation under the command of the United States Army Installation Management Command. It is located in Cochise County, in southeast Arizona, about north of the border with Mexico. Beginning in 1913, for 20 years the fort was the base for the "Buffalo...
  
   in Arizona
  Arizona
  Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
  
   in 1971.
• Early 1970s: Because it was near Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
  
  , it was used to guard witnesses in major federal cases, such as the Watergate hearings. Charles Colson
  Charles Colson
  Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colson is a Christian leader, cultural commentator, and former Special Counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973....
  
   and John Dean
  John Dean
  John Wesley Dean III is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to United States President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. In this position, he became deeply involved in events leading up to the Watergate burglaries and the subsequent Watergate scandal cover-up...
  
  were among the Watergate witnesses held there.
• 1973: Closed, area has been redeveloped into an industrial park.

External links

• http://www.wlhoward.com/museum/id771.htm
• Camp Holabird, from "On the Trail of Jeep History"
• 1919 Letter from a man in Camp Holabird
• 1928 article, "The Holabird Quartermaster Depot"
• "Camp Holabird Today" (2007)