{"id":2898,"date":"2026-05-20T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:55:57","slug":"history-of-camp-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=2898","title":{"rendered":"History of Camp Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tuesday, June 16th at 6:00PM<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Presented by Midway Village Museum: Come hear about the history of Camp Grant. Built in 1917 and used through World War II, tens of thousands of recruits trained at Camp Grant. Particularly notable was the arrival of over 13,000 African American soldiers, a dramatic demographic shift for a community with only 200 black residents before the war. Camp Grant also became a center for the training of medical personnel and the housing of prisoners of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Medical-Staff-at-Camp-Grant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"431\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Medical-Staff-at-Camp-Grant.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2901\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Medical-Staff-at-Camp-Grant.jpg 431w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Medical-Staff-at-Camp-Grant-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Colonel-Charles-Young-trained-soldiers-at-Camp-Grant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Colonel-Charles-Young-trained-soldiers-at-Camp-Grant.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2900\" style=\"width:309px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Colonel-Charles-Young-trained-soldiers-at-Camp-Grant.jpg 590w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Colonel-Charles-Young-trained-soldiers-at-Camp-Grant-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Colonel-Charles-Young-trained-soldiers-at-Camp-Grant-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Colonel-Charles-Young-trained-soldiers-at-Camp-Grant-510x510.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/camp-grant-troops.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/camp-grant-troops.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/camp-grant-troops.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/camp-grant-troops-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, June 16th at 6:00PM Presented by Midway Village Museum: Come hear about the history of Camp Grant. Built in 1917 and used through World War II, tens of thousands of recruits trained at Camp Grant. Particularly notable was the arrival of over 13,000 African American soldiers, a dramatic demographic shift for a community with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[511,512,164,513],"class_list":{"0":"post-2898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-adult-programming","7":"tag-250th-anniversary","8":"tag-camp-grant","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-midway-village-museum","11":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}