* 1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.

At that point, Route 38 was proposed as a highway from Camden ( where it would end ), past its former terminus at State Highway Route 39 to an intersection with State Highway Route 4-N in the community of Wall Township east of Fort Dix.

It would then have run parallel to the current alignment of Route 38 through the Mount Holly area and then travel along the northern border of the Fort Dix Military Reservation to Jackson Township, Ocean County, where it would then follow the present alignment of Interstate 195 to Wall Township.

** Fort Dix ( part )

** Fort Dix ( part )

** Fort Dix ( part )

Fort Dix, the common name for the Dix unit of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, is a United States Army base located approximately south-southeast of Trenton, New Jersey.

Fort Dix, established in 1917, was consolidated with two adjoining US Air Force and Navy facilities to became part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst ( JB MDL ) on 1 October 2009.

However, it remains commonly known as Fort Dix as of 2012.

The facility originated in 1917 as Fort Dix, named in honor of Major General John Adams Dix, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, and a former United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury and Governor of New York.

In 1978, the first female recruits entered basic training at Fort Dix.

Fort Dix is named for Major General John Adams Dix, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Civil War.

Camp Dix became Fort Dix on March 8, 1939, and the installation became a permanent Army post.

On July 15, 1947, Fort Dix became a Basic Training Center and the home of the 9th Infantry Division.

Since Vietnam, Fort Dix has sent soldiers to Operation Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

The Atlantic Strike Team ( AST ) of the U. S. Coast Guard is based at Fort Dix.

Fort Dix is also home to Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution, the largest single federal prison in America.

Knowing that Fort Dix was on a base closure list the U. S. Air Force attempted to save the U. S. Army post during 1987.

In 2008, plans to close Army base Fort Lawton opened up debate over what to do with the former military properties: housing advocates wanted it converted into affordable housing, while some neighborhood groups opposed the idea.

He was one of the advocates of the conspiracy theory that HIV was created by the United States government at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

By that time, a number of log cabins had been built to provide shelter for the skilled tradesmen and storekeepers who were attracted to the area by the Fort which needed many supplies and services.

In 1895-1896, the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad ( later owned by the Kansas City Southern Railroad ) established a station at the present site of Spiro, which it connected directly to Fort Smith, Arkansas, According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture this attracted residents from the nearby town of Skullyville and soon made Spiro the principal town in this area.

Before and during World War II, the town's bars and gambling establishments attracted soldiers from nearby Fort Smith, Arkansas and Camp Chaffee.

Its wealth attracted the raids of pirates, against which fortifications such as Fort San Juan de Ulúa were built.

People are mainly attracted to Groton because of General Dynamics branch of Electric Boat, its history with the Revolutionary War, battle memorials and Fort Griswold.

In June 1857, the Penningtons had to temporarily settle at Sonoita Creek, next to Fort Buchanan, because their animals were either exhausted, or had been stolen by Apaches, and Larcena had attracted malaria.

He may have been attracted there for historical reasons-in 1794 Napoleon had been imprisoned in Fort Carré, and in 1815, returning from exile on Elba in 1815 he had come ashore at Golfe-Jouan ,- and the island of Sainte-Marguerite where the Man in the Iron Mask was imprisoned 1686-1698, was a little out to sea.

News of the " Negro Fort " ( as it came to be called ) attracted as many as 800 black fugitives who settled in the surrounding area.

Time Team has been here in 2009, attracted by Piercebridge Roman Fort in 2009.

One reason the Cariboo rush attracted fewer Americans than the original Fraser rush may have been the American Civil War, with many who had been around after the Fraser gold rush going home to take sides, or to the Fort Colville gold rush which was largely manned by men who had been on the Fraser or to other BC rushes such as those at Rock Creek and Big Bend.

The area of Fort Desoto for over 400 years has attracted a variety of visitors.

After Brown's raid, the fire engine house became known as " John Brown's Fort " and attracted tourist attention.

In 1858 Gordon-Cumming went to live at Fort Augustus, Scotland, on the Caledonian Canal, where the exhibition of his trophies attracted many visitors.

But the December 1865 meeting attracted triple the membership with scattered clubs from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Her base was 3 miles from the protective safety of Fort Monroe, but her classes also attracted adults at night.

Taylor had the support of stage line employees, Fort Concho officers, area ranchmen, and the growing numbers of business and professional men who, with their families, had been attracted to the new town.

Maj. Anderson of Fort Sumter is home and recruiting volunteers for the U.S. Army.

When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.

* 1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.

During the 1st century AD, the Army then chose a site to the north of the emerging town in what is now the section of Bonn-Castell to build a large military installation dubbed Castra Bonnensis, i. e., literally, " Fort Bonn ".

), USAMRIID ’ s Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook, 6th edition, U. S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland ( April 2005 ).

Fort Leavenworth / Washington: U. S. Army Command and General Staff College.

In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in the War of 1812, Battle of Fort Dearborn.

In June 1941, he was appointed Chief of Staff to General Walter Krueger, Commander of the 3rd Army, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, located at Fort Gordon near Augusta, Georgia, was named in his honor.

He moved to Arizona with his family, where his father had a bandmaster position at Fort Whipple in the U. S. Army.

Fort Collins was founded as a military outpost of the United States Army in 1864.

* 1806 – Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.

In 1942, Robinson was drafted and assigned to a segregated Army cavalry unit in Fort Riley, Kansas.

* Fort Carson, an Army post in Colorado Springs, Colorado

The regiment was renumbered the 60th ( Royal American ) Regiment in February 1757 when the 50th ( Shirley's ) and 51st ( Pepperel's ) foot regiments were removed from the British Army roll after their surrender at Fort Oswego.

Following the War of 1812, the US Army began construction on " Fort Blunder ", an unnamed fortification built by the Americans at the northernmost end of Lake Champlain to protect against any further attacks from British Canada.

* 1871 – The U. S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.

* 1856 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.

It is housed in Roosevelt Hall on Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D. C., the third-oldest Army post still active.

The chief conspirators, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, met in 1988 at Fort Benning during basic training for the U. S. Army.

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 66027 – 6900: U. S. Army Command and General Staff College,

In 1963, Sutch and his manager, Reginald Calvert, took over Shivering Sands Army Fort, a Maunsell Fort off Southend and in 1964 started Radio Sutch, intending to compete with other pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline.