Camp Shafter (site) (Shafter, California)

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Built in 1942 to house laborers for activities of the U.S. Forest Service Emergency Rubber Project (ERP) and the guayule rubber industry, the labor camp housed approximately 180 families and 200 to 300 single men. On 01 December 1944, the US Army took over the property, now known as Camp Shafter was utilized by the Army to house German prisoners-of-war as a branch camp of Camp Cooke (now known as Vandenberg Air Force Base). Improvements to Camp Shafter by the U.S. Army included the construction of four buildings. The US Army transferred the property back to the Department of Agriculture on 25 July 1946. The former camp appears on the 1957 and 1966 topographic maps as "Farm Labor Center" before disappearing in 1970.

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