Fort Belvoir

Fort Belvoir takes its name from the eighteenth-century plantation owned by William Fairfax, whose house burned in 1783. The U.S. War Department acquired much of the Belvoir tract in 1912 for a training center and named it Camp A. A. Humphreys after Major General Andrew A. Humphreys, a former Chief of Engineers. During World War One, the camp was enlarged and the Engineer School moved there. The post was renamed Fort Humphreys in 1922, and in 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the name to Fort Belvoir. The Engineer School moved to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, in 1988.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia · United States