Large training and maneuver area extending west to Camp Polk, approximately 40 miles. Much of this area was on a lease basis and was used only as a maneuver and training area. The campsite consisted of a tent area and many more or less permanent tent structures
that would last for an unknown period." Cecil Atkinson remembered when the army came to town, acquiring acreage from area residents
and dislocating many, including his family in his memoir, Camp Claibome, he related that mill operator Branch Smith gave his father the
house in which they lived since the land where it stood was to become army property. The Atkinson family moved the building up the
highway to where his father had purchased forty acres. Eventually, Camp Evangeline was renamed for William C. Claibome, the
governor of the Territory of Orleans and the first governor of Louisiana, and officially opened on January 15, 1941)
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