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about 50,000 acres and was built in 1942-43 as a training center for World War II. It was formally dedicated September 4, 1943, although occupied by troops for some time prior to that date. See news articles in the Oregonian, August 27, 1943, and in the Oregon Journal, September 4, 1943. The camp was named in honor of Lieutenant Adair. Camp Adair post office was established June 1, 1942. It was discontinued May 23, 1946.

CAMP ALDEN, Jackson County. After the battle of Evans Creek, Aug. ust 24, 1853, which was an important event in the Rogue River Indian outbreak, General Lane put the white soldiers into a camp at Hailey Ferry near Upper Table Rock. This camp was called Camp Alden in compliment to Captain Bradford Ripley Alden of the Fourth U. S. Infantry, who had been severely wounded on Evans Creek. After a few weeks, Fort Lane supplanted Camp Alden. The exact location of Camp Alden is not known. Hailey Ferry later became Bybee Ferry. Walling's statement in History of Southern Oregon, page 220, to the effect that Alden died from the effect of his wound two years later is not borne out by Heitman's Historical Register, which gives the date as September 10, 1870.

CAMP ALVORD, Malheur County. Camp Alvord was established in June, 1864, in what is now known as Alvord Valley at the east base of Steens Mountain. Lieutenant J. A. Waymire and troops of the First Oregon Volunteer Cavalry had camped in the locality early in the year and had dug some rifle-pits during an engagement with the Indians. In June, Captain George B. Currey of the same regiment, in command of cavalry and infantry, found these pits and selected the site for an establishment which he called Camp Alvord in compliment to Brigadier-General Benjamin Alvord. For a history of Alvord, see under ALVORD LAKE. Currey caused some additional earthworks to be thrown up in the form of a star, but the compiler has been unable to learn of any permanent structures. For details about the history of this camp, see Bancroft's History of Oregon, volume II, page 499 et seq. Camp Alvord was used until June, 1866, when it was evacuated and the troops moved to a new camp on Whitehorse Creek called Camp C. F. Smith.

CAMP BAKER, Jackson County. Alice A. Sargent wrote a short account of Camp Baker in the Medford Mail-Tribune September 13, 1931. The camp was established in 1862 and was garrisoned by part of the First Oregon Volunteer Cavalry. It was named in honor of Major-General E. D. Baker who was killed at the battle of Balls Bluff in 1861. See under BAKER County. The site of Camp Baker was about a half a mile west of Phoenix and not far from Jacksonville. The various buildings were built of hewn pine logs. Coleman Creek flowed between the mess hall and the stables. In 1931 there were a few mouldering logs to mark the spot. The compiler does not know when the camp was evacuated but it was used as late as 1865. In January, 1944, T. V. Williams of Medford wrote the compiler that the D.A.R, marker for Camp Baker stands about 75 feet west of Coleman Creek on the south side of the east-west road through the middle of section 16, township 38 south, range 1 west. Camp Barlow, Clackamas County. Camp Barlow is mentioned in official military records, but it does not seem to have been a formal establishment and was perhaps not more than a campground. It was used in the '60s as a place of enlistment or rendezvous for Oregon volunteers. Tradition at Oregon City says that the camp was on the property of William Barlow adjacent to Molalla River, or just northeast of the present D. Baker UNTY. The far fra