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Camp William Penn Marker

MLA citation style
Camp William Penn Marker. no date. no date. Accessed 30 Apr. 2024.
APA citation style
Camp William Penn Marker. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A259512
Chicago citation style
“Camp William Penn Marker”, Historical Society of Montgomery County - African American History Collection. Accessed April 30, 2024. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A259512.
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Title

Camp William Penn Marker

Subject

African Americans
Civil War

Description

From 1863 to 1865, this site in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania served as a training camp for United States Colored Troops. It was the first and largest federal training facility for African Americans during the Civil War. The stone marker pictured here was placed in 1943 at the corner of Willow and Sycamore Avenue in Cheltenham. It was placed by the Allied Veterans Association of Pennsylvania.

Location Covered

Cheltenham (Pa.)

Time Period Covered

1943

Type

Image

Original Format

Photographs

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Identifier

2014342290

Language

English

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Contact

The copyright for this photograph is not evaluated. For questions regarding use and publication of this photograph, please contact the Historical Society of Montgomery County by phone or email: (610) 272-0297, contact@hsmcpa.org

Contributing Institution

Historical Society of Montgomery County

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.