- Camp Logan
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Camp Logan, Illlinois Camp Logan was a
World War I -era army training camp inHouston ,Texas . The site of the camp is now primarily occupied by Memorial Park where it borders the Crestwood neighborhood, near Memorial Elementary School. Some chunks of concrete, remnants of building foundations, and trenches likely used for training or middens still remain in the heavily-forested park. Many of the trails through the park in this area trace the routes of old Camp Logan roads. One stretch of a Camp Logan road remains in original condition, that being the shell-surfaced service road to the golf course.A map of Camp Logan as well as other resources about the camp and its history are available at the
Houston Public Library in the Texas and Local History Collection, housed in the Julia Ideson building, next door to the Central Library downtown.A historical marker in the park across the street from the school commemorates the camp, and the 1917 riot that occurred there. The Camp Logan Riot broke out following recurring police mistreatment of the black soldiers of the Third Battalion, Twenty-fourth United States Infantry stationed at the camp. The soldiers took guns and marched on downtown, killing police and innocent people along the way.
In recent years, Camp Logan refers to the neighborhood tucked in to the northeast corner of Memorial Park, bordered by Westcott and Arnot streets, north of Memorial Elementary School.
References
* [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/HH/jch4.html HOUSTON RIOT OF 1917] . "
Handbook of Texas Online."* [http://www.coe.uh.edu/untold_stories/timeline/logan_time.html Camp Logan race riots | 1918] . Thomas R. Cole. Untold Stories: The Strange Demise of Jim Crow in Houston.
* [http://www.hal-pc.org/~lfa/BB19.html Buffalo Bayou, An Echo of Houston's Wilderness Beginnings] . Linda C. Gorski and Louis F. Aulbach. Camp Logan Logan Riot, August, 1917.
* [http://www.camplogan.org Camp Logan Civic Club]
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