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Fort Custer State Recreation Area is a 3,033-acre (12 km 2) State Recreation Area located between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, Michigan. The area features lakes, the Kalamazoo River , over 25 miles of multi-use trails, second growth oak barrens and dry-mesic southern (oak-hickory) forests.
"The Human U.S. Shield," 30,000 officers and men, at Camp Custer, Michigan, World War I, (1918). Camp Custer was built in 1917 for military training during World War I.Named after Civil War cavalry officer General George Armstrong Custer, the facility trained or demobilized more than 100,000 troops during World War I, including 5,000 for Polar Bear Expedition as part of the Allied intervention ...
The earliest French bases were quite small and short-lived. Later some installations would be in use for over a century (Fort Wayne, Fort Mackinaw) and spread over large areas (Fort Custer - 14,000 acres (57 km 2), Camp Grayling - 147,000 acres (590 km 2)). In chronological order:
Fort Custer may refer to: Fort Custer (Montana) , a historic U.S. Army fort in Montana, constructed in 1877, and abandoned in 1898 Fort Custer Training Center , a Michigan Army National Guard training facility in Michigan, built in 1917
Movies filmed in Custer State Park, include The Last Hunt (1956), How the West Was Won (1962) and A Man Called Horse (1970). [9] U.S. President Calvin Coolidge and his wife Grace vacationed at Custer State Park for several weeks during the summer of 1927. Grace Coolidge Creek and its surrounding campground and trail are named in honor of the ...
Fort Custer National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located just outside the village of Augusta in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. It encompasses 770.4 acres (311.8 ha), and as of 2022 [update] had 33,000 interments.
In April and May, 1877, three companies (C, F and G) were moved from Cheyenne Agency, and three companies ( A, B and H) from Fort Yates in the Standing Rock Agency to the Little Big Horn, Montana, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel G. P. Buell, 11th Infantry, where they constructed the post of Fort Custer.
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