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Camp Russell A. Alger was established in May 1898 on the 1,400-acre farm called Woodburn Manor and was named for Secretary of War Russell A. Alger. Some 23,000 men trained there for service in the Spanish-American War, and the large military population greatly affected the lives of residents in the small communities of Falls Church and Dunn Loring. The camp was abandoned early in August 1898 after an epidemic of typhoid fever, and the War Department began selling the land in September 1898.
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West Falls Church, Virginia · United States
