Fort Knox in Kentucky is one of the Army’s major installations and the home of major commands including the United States Army Armor School and Center and United States Army Recruiting Command, with a primary mission of training soldiers for the Army’s Armor and Cavalry force. Named for Major General Henry Knox, Chief of Artillery for the Continental Army during the American Revolution and later the first Secretary of War, it grew from Camp Knox, established in 1918 after earlier military maneuvers in the area in 1903 and 1904, into a permanent post in 1932. Chosen for its location, terrain, and access, the camp was originally planned as a vast artillery training center, then remained active for National Guard, Army Reserve, and civilian military training after regular Army closure in 1922. In the 1930s it became the headquarters for Mechanized Cavalry, an induction center for the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the site of major permanent construction, while the U.S. Bullion Depository was built on land set aside by Fort Knox and received its first gold in 1937. During World War II, Fort Knox became headquarters of the Armored Force, expanded enormously, supported experiments with landing ship tanks, housed prisoners of war, and saw President Franklin Delano Roosevelt visit in 1943. After the war it remained central to armor training and development: the Patton Museum opened there, cavalry and armor were joined into a new Armor branch, soldiers were trained for Korea and Vietnam, and the post helped develop and field major tanks including the M48 Patton, M60, and M1 Abrams. In later decades Fort Knox also hosted recruiting headquarters, supported Desert Shield and Desert Storm, participated in Army transformation and Stryker testing, and continued its long role as America’s Home of the Armor and Cavalry. The surrounding Radcliff–Fort Knox area was first settled in the late 1700s, included early churches and families connected to Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Boone, lay along the Louisville and Nashville Turnpike, and saw both Union and Confederate armies pass through during the Civil War.