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The forested area is Discovery Park, with the brown area being the Fort Lawton Military Reserve. Discovery Park was created in the early 1970s from land surplus to the U.S. Army's Fort Lawton. The site for the 1,100-acre (4.5 km 2) fort had been given to the Army by the city in 1898, and the fort opened in 1900. The Army offered to sell it back ...
Fort Wright was used for military purposes until 1957, when the government declared the fort surplus and gave educational facilities priority to purchase the property. Some of the land was used for Spokane Falls Community College in 1960. [9] [10]
Military facilities located in the state of Washington — all current & former military facilities, and historic demolished sites. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as:
The War Assets Administration (WAA) was created to dispose of United States government-owned surplus material and property from World War II. The WAA was established in the Office for Emergency Management , effective March 25, 1946, by Executive Order 9689, January 31, 1946.
G.I. Joe's began in 1952 when Edward Orkney purchased army surplus sleeping bags and then set up a tent in Portland, Oregon, to sell them to the public. [3] Orkney sold out of the sleeping bags and then started selling other army surplus merchandise in a store that then doubled in size by 1956, [3] making it Portland's largest retailer of sporting goods and outdoor gear.
NAS Seattle was deactivated in 1970 and the airfield was shut down; the reduced base was renamed "Naval Support Activity Seattle." Negotiations began as to who would receive the surplus property. In 1975 a large portion of the Navy's land was given to the City of Seattle and to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The ...