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  2. Fort Jackson (South Carolina) - Wikipedia

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    Fort Jackson is a United States Army installation, which TRADOC operates on for Basic Combat Training (BCT), and is located within the city of Columbia, South Carolina.This installation is named for Andrew Jackson, a United States Army general and the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) who was born in the border region of North and South Carolina.

  3. List of U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers

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    In February 2025, the base was again renamed to Fort Bragg, this time for World War II paratrooper Roland L. Bragg. [15] Fort Gordon (1917), near Augusta, Georgia, named for Confederate General John Brown Gordon, was redesignated Fort Eisenhower on 27 October 2023 in honor of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the ninth renaming. [16] [17]

  4. Fort James Jackson - Wikipedia

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    Fort Jackson is located at 1 Fort Jackson Road, [4] on the Islands Expressway linking Savannah to Fort Pulaski and the town of Tybee Island. [2] Fort Jackson is owned by the state of Georgia and operated as a museum by the Coastal Heritage Society. The Fort has several daily cannon and small-arms firing demonstrations every day of the week.

  5. Trump’s renaming spree continues as Pete Hegseth refers to ...

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    Fort Moore, which is now the only U.S. base named after a married couple, had originally been christened after Confederate General Henry L. Benning. Pete Hegseth arrives at the Pentagon for the ...

  6. Fort Liberty now Fort Bragg. What's the history behind the ...

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    The base was officially renamed in 2023.Costs to update its name were estimated at $8 million at the time. It's unclear how much it might cost the military to change the name again.

  7. Hegseth orders US Army to restore name of Fort Bragg - AOL

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    U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday renamed the Army base Fort Liberty back to its original name of Fort Bragg, according to a Department of Defense statement, undoing a 2023 name change ...

  8. List of renamed places in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Black River was renamed Draanjik River after its original Gwich'in name in 2014. [4] Chandalar River was renamed Ch'iidrinjik River and Teedrinjik River as replacements for the North and Middle forks of the river in 2015. [4] Sheldon Point was renamed Nunam Iqua in 1999, after its original Yup'ik name.

  9. Fort Toulouse and Fort Jackson - Wikipedia

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    Archeological excavations have been continuing at the site, supervised by Dr. Craig Sheldon of Auburn University at Montgomery. The Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson State Historic Site has living history programs to portray and interpret the lives of the Creek inhabitants, the French colonists and the U.S. military troops associated with the War of 1812.