At the beginning of World War II, the U.S. Army established Camp George A. White in a part of Jackson County then known as the Agate Desert as a training cantonment. Soldiers from across the nation, including women and southern Oregon's first large contingent of African-Americans, arrived here for basic boot camp training. Camp White covered seventy-seven square miles, reaching as far north as Shady Cove, with two giant ranges flanking the central one-mile-wide and four-mile-long Building Core. More than 1,300 buildings were erected in just eight months to house and train the 91st Pine Tree Division along with engineers, artillery, and medical units. Most of the buildings were wood, but the Station Hospital, a giant 1,400-bed institution, was built of brick and considered semi-permanent. Camp White's population was 40,000, three times the size of Medford at the time, and an estimated 100,000 troops were trained there for service in World War II. Camp White was decommissioned in 1945, and most of the buildings were razed or relocated for other uses. The station hospital was transferred to the Veterans Administration, later the Department of Veterans Affairs, and reopened as Camp White Domicillary in February 1949. Much of the old building core was redeveloped as an industrial park, using the army's gridded street pattern and power system to support Jackson County's postwar timber industry. In 1960 the post office was renamed from Camp White Station to White City, now a thriving unincorporated community of nearly 10,000 residents. The VA Dom was renamed Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center and Clinics in 2003. The buildings of the Camp White Station Hospital are among the best surviving elements of Camp White and represent an important period of southern Oregon and national history, and Building 200, the hospital's Administration Building, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.