Camp Pike

Camp Pike was established on three thousand acres of land by the U.S. Army in 1917. The cantonment is now known as Camp Robinson, and is home to the Arkansas Army National Guard and the Arkansas Air National Guard.

The siting of Camp Pike was engineered by the Little Rock Board of Commerce, which donated the land and built roads for the Army. The Army itself constructed more than two thousand buildings on the site. Military engineer John R. Fordyce supervised construction of the camp. The contractor on the facility was Jason Stewart and Company of New York and St. Louis.

The camp was originally commanded by major-general Samuel D. Sturgis.

References

• Bernie Babcock, Yesterday and Today in Arkansas: A Folio of Rare and Interesting Pictures from Mrs. Babcock's Collection for Stories and Legends of Arkansas (Jordan & Foster Printing Co., 1917).