 Picture courtesy of Marty Larson
Fort Belvoir is named for the 18th-Century plantation that was owned by William Fairfax. The house burned in 1783. The U.S. War Department aqquired much of the Belvoir tract in 1912 as a training center and in 1917 named it Camp A.A. Humphreys, a former Chief of Engineers. During World War I the camp was enlarged and the Engineer School moved there. The camp was renamed Fort Humphreys in 1922. In 1935, President Franklin D. Rooseveldt changed the name to Fort Belvoir. The Engineer school moved to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo, in 1988.
Department of Historic Resources 1999
Within the gates of Fort Belvoir Arlington County Virginia.
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