Schools housed at Carlisle Barracks during the period 1776-1976

Carlisle Barracks housed a succession of military and related schools from 1776 to 1976, including the Artillery School from 1777 to 1783; a recruiting depot and basic training for dragoons, artillery, and infantry from 1791 to 1818; a U.S. Navy recruiting depot in 1828; the Cavalry School from 1838 to 1871; recruiting and retraining functions from 1861 to 1865; the Carlisle Indian Industrial School from 1879 to 1918; the Medical Field Service School from 1920 to 1946; the Army, later Armed Forces, Information School from 1946 to 1951; the School for Government of Occupied Areas in 1946; the Adjutant General School from 1946 to 1947; the Chaplain School from 1946 to 1951; the Military Police School from 1946 to 1948; the Army Security Agency School from 1949 to 1951; and the Army War College from 1951 to the present.

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