Camp Murphy Bunker #1 Traditional Cache

This cache is located by a original structure from the WWII Camp Murphy Army base. This is the vault to the First Atlantic Bank that was in the Provost building on the base. This is an intact two-room walk-in vault although the vault doors have been removed. One of the vault doors apparently had to be forced open from inside -- there is a man-sized hole in the roof immediately above the doorway with the concrete re-bar bent inward.
Operated by the Southern Signal Corps School and sited on 11,200 acres, Camp Murphy served as the Army's top-secret radar training facility. Named for Col. William Herbert Murphy, an U.S. Army pioneer in electronic equipment, the camp operated from April 1942 until November 1944 to provide research and development resources to the military. As many as 1,000 buildings were constructed for use by a complement of 854 officers and 5,000 men stationed here during this thirty-one month period. Pilots from NAAS Witham at Stuart flew training missions over Camp Murphy to provide targets to the students learning to use the radar equipment.

Acquired by the State of Florida when abandoned by the military, Camp Murphy became Jonathan Dickinson State Park. Two WWII era buildings remain in use by the Park Service.