View of the post incenerator at Camp Polk, Louisiana on 13 May 1941

Gift of Richard Wisdom
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View of the post incenerator at Camp Polk, Louisiana on 13 May 1941

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Oren Sholars was born 20 October 1878 in Dodson, Louisiana. He worked as a carpenter foreman for the contractor T.L. James & Company. During the 1940s Sholars worked on the construction of Camp Polk in Vernon Parish, Louisiana. During the construction he and his crew lived in the first barracks building at the camp. Sholars died in Ruston, Louisiana on 2 October 1962. The collection consists of 25 photographs documenting the construction progress of Camp Polk.
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Fort Polk
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31.033
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-93.200
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Military facilities--American--Louisiana
Military training--Louisiana
Construction--Louisiana
Incinerators--Louisiana