Fort Crowder (2)
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Fort Crowder (2) (1941-1946, 1950s-) - A World War II U.S. Army Fort first established as Camp Crowder in 1941 near Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. Named after Major General Enoch H. Crowder, (Cullum 2909), provost marshal of the United States during World War I. Abandoned in 1946, reactivated in 1953 for the Korean War and finally deactivated in 1958. World War IIEstablished in 1941 as an armor training center and repurposed as a U.S. Army Signal Corps replacement training center, an Army Service Forces training center and an officer candidate prep school. The post also found use as an infantry replacement center and later a German prisoner of war camp. The fort came to occupy 43,000 acres. Cold WarThe post was deactivated in 1946 and placed in caretaker status. Many of the temporary WWII barracks were declared surplus and sold. In 1953 two permanent barracks and a disciplinary barracks were built. The post was reactivated as a permanent installation and used as a reception center for newly inducted draftees. The fort was deactivated again in January 1958 and portions were transferred to the U.S. Air Force for use as a buffer zone for a liquid fueled rocket manufacturing plant. Current StatusThe permanent barracks, were obtained as surplus and formed the core of the community college campus for Crowder College in 1962. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages some 4,358 acres used by the National Guard and in the mid-1980s, the remaining parcels were transferred to various public and private entities.
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