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At a location sometimes called Parkhurst Point or Point Rochester, this popular YWCA camp began as a "Vacation House" rented to single young women at very reasonable rates. It seems to have taken its name from an association of donors, who went on to…

Part of the Young Women's Christian Association program was finding suitable housing for young single women, often relocating from rural areas to work in cities. Rochester headquarters on North Clinton offered affordable housing, but the organization…

Located near Annapolis Junction, MD this was one of the larger cantonments on the east coast, some 400,000 volunteers and draftees passing through en route to WWI in Europe. The stark, regimented conditions facing new arrivals helps to explain the…

Although used only for six months as a cantonment during WWI, this base in Plattsburgh, NY had a history dating back to the War of 1812 and continued to serve as an innovative Reserve Officer Training Corps.<br /> <br /> YWCA Hostess Houses, usually located…

Establishment of a Marine Base at Quantico, VA officially dates to 1917 and declaration of war in Europe, although military leaders had been eying the site for some time. Thousands of Marines were--and still are--trained for duty here.<br /> <br /> YWCA…

An airfield prior to WWI, the US Army Air Service expanded operations at this location near Mineola, NY upon declaration of war in 1917. With the arrival of railroad infrastructure the adjacent Camp Mills was built as an embarkation camp--mobilizing…

Located near Macon, GA this mobilization was built in 1917 and quickly reached its peak of 29,000 National Guard and other inductees for training. It was closed in 1919, then re-opened for a period during WWII.<br /> <br /> YWCA Hostess Houses, usually located…

Caption to photograph summarizes the content of this news clipping: &quot;General secretary of the Young Women&#039;s Christian Association, of Baltimore, who has resigned her position to manage a big wheat farm in Western New York. She takes the place of her…