Camp Zachary Taylor was a military training camp in Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

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. It opened in 1917, to train soldiers for U.S.

United States

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 involvement in World War I

World War I

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, and was closed three years later. Its name (and some of its buildings) live on as the Camp Taylor neighborhood of Louisville. It is named for Louisville resident and United States President Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor

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.

Not to be confused with Fort Zachary Taylor, a place in Key West Florida used for a military base.

The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald

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 trained at the camp.

Demobilization Station

• 1st Division September 1919
• 38th Division January 1919
• 84th Division July 1919

External links

• Camp Zachary Taylor
• Camp Zachary Taylor Historical Society