Camp Sutton Traditional Geocache
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You seek a camo'd thermos container with log and swag near what was once the heart of Camp Sutton, a World War II military training camp established northeast of Monroe. The historical marker can be seen just to the west of the cache location. Please rehide the cache as well or better than you found it!!
Opened on March 7, 1942, three months after America's entry into World War II, Camp Sutton was among the largest military training facilities in North Carolina (and the nation) during the war. Each of the installations was also the site of a prisoner of war camp.
Camp Sutton was organized as a training site for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and opened as a temporary “tent” camp in the spring of 1942. The base covered 2,296 acres about three miles northeast of Monroe in Union County. Located on U.S. Highway 74, Sutton was naturally divided into two halves by Richardson’s Creek, and a railroad line also ran through the camp. The installation was named in honor of Frank H. Sutton, a Monroe native who was killed over Libya in 1941 while serving as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. A total of 16,000 men in 49 units trained at the base during the course of the war.
Camp Sutton was deactivated in January 1945, but the last of the German POWs were not shipped out until the spring of 1946 (nearly a year after the war ended). After the war, buildings on the property housed facilities used to treat polio patients. (A precursor to the nearby hospital.) Very few of the original buildings exist today.
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