Camp Dunlap

Camp Dunlap was a U.S. Marine Corps base activated on 15 October 1942, as a training facility during World War II.[1] The camp was named for Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap.[2] It was used to train artillery and anti-aircraft units of the Fleet Marine Force.[3] The base was located at the present-day location of Slab City (also known as The Slabs) in Imperial County, California. On 29 August 1951, the state lands commission approved sale of the 11,342 acres to the Navy at $1.20 per acre, with the state retaining the mineral rights, and with the understanding that the land would revert to the state when the Navy abandons it.[4] In October 1961, the United States Department of Defense conveyed the land on which Camp Dunlap was situated back to the State of California.[5]

References
  1. Hailey, Charlie (2008). Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place. Louisiana State University Press, p. 181.
  2. Id. (see p. 182)
  3. Id.
  4. Associated Press, “Army, Navy Get Desert Tracts”, ‘’The San Bernardino Daily Sun’’, San Bernardino, California, Thursday 30 August 1951, Volume LVII, Number 312, p. 2.
  5. Id. (p. 181)

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