from Stockade Tower, Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: from Stockade Tower, Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: North-West, no. 1, from Stockade Tower, Camp Sevier, S.C.
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from Stockade Tower, Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918
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Camp Sevier was an Army training cantonment built in 1917 on the outskirts of Greenville, South Carolina, and named for John Sevier, the frontiersman and first governor of Tennessee. In 1918 the camp was crowded with draftees and National Guard units, and it drew young men from across the Carolinas and Tennessee into training. Greenville itself was a textile and mill town whose economy rested on cotton spinning and weaving, and the war effort pulled many mill workers, farmers, and small-town men into uniform. The camp's wooden barracks, drill fields, and guardhouses reshaped the edge of the city, bringing soldiers, supply trains, and wartime rules into everyday local life. The stockade in this view, with its tower and enclosed yard, marks the military discipline that governed the camp during its busiest year.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Creator | peden, j. r. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--South Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,494 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | North-West, no. 1, from Stockade Tower, Camp Sevier, S.C. |
| Reference | SC 1918 from Stockade Tower, Camp Sevier |
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