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Camp Merritt, New Jersey

1917 establishments in New JerseyBuildings and structures in Bergen County, New JerseyCresskill, New JerseyDumont, New JerseyHistory of New Jersey
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Port of Embarkation Hoboken (1917 1918) with Camp Merritt marked
Port of Embarkation Hoboken (1917 1918) with Camp Merritt marked

Camp Merritt was a military base in Dumont and Cresskill, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, that was activated for use in World War I. It had a capacity for 38,000 transient troops and was one of three camps directly under the control of the New York Port of Embarkation. Two routes were used to transport troops, the first being local railroads which would carry the men South. The alternate route involved marching in contingents of two to three thousand men to the North-East and descending the Palisades. These men marched for an hour to board ferryboats at Old Closter Dock, Alpine Landing that took them to the piers at Hoboken, New Jersey to board troop transports for Europe. Contingents would leave the camp for the landing at half hour intervals to board the ferries for the two hour trip to the embarkation piers where several transports might be loading simultaneously. There they would be joined by troops from Camp Mills and Camp Upton arriving by train at a terminal on Long Island for final transport by ferry to the embarkation piers. Approximately four million troops were sent to the Western Front during World War I, about one million of them passed through Camp Merritt. Camp Merritt was decommissioned in 1919.

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Port of Embarkation Hoboken (1917 1918) with Camp Merritt marked
Port of Embarkation Hoboken (1917 1918) with Camp Merritt marked
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