Fort Shafter
Fort Shafter | |
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Honolulu, Hawaii | |
Coordinates | 21°20′42″N 157°53′02″W / 21.345°N 157.884°W |
Type | Army post |
Site information | |
Controlled by | U.S. Army |
Site history | |
Built | 1905-1907 |
In use | 1907 – present |
Battles/wars | Attack on Pearl Harbor |
Garrison information | |
Current commander | General Charles A. Flynn |
Past commanders | General Vincent Brooks |
Garrison | U.S. Army Pacific |
Fort Shafter, in
History
Fort Shafter is the oldest military base on Oahu and celebrated its 100th birthday on 22 June 2007.
Fort Shafter has been home to the senior Army headquarters in Hawaii for a century. Construction began in 1905 on the
Fort Shafter gradually spread out from Palm Circle. Tripler General Hospital once stood where the highway intersection is today (the hospital moved to its present location in 1948). In 1914, a regimental-sized cantonment area was constructed (near Richardson Theater). The Hawaiian Ordnance Depot was built in 1917 as a separate post (near today's post exchange). In 1921, the Hawaiian Department moved to Fort Shafter from downtown Honolulu. Finally, a new area was constructed in 1940 for Signal Corps elements.
War came to Fort Shafter on 7 December 1941, where the Hawaiian Department commander, Lieutenant General
For most of the time since the
References
- U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 11 October 2020. - Page 4
- ^ Parkman, E. Breck (2019). "A Hypothesis Regarding the Army's Incinerator at Fort McDowell, Marin County, California" (PDF). Articles of the SCA Proceedings. 33: 86. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- This article incorporates public domain material from History of Fort Shafter, Hawaii. United States Army.
External links
- US Army Garrison - Hawaii
- United States Army Pacific
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. HI-287-C, "Fort Shafter Military Reservation, Facilities No. 820-822, 824, 826-828, 840, 841, 844-846, Rice Street and Herian Place, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI", 8 photos, 21 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
- HABS No. HI-287-D, "Fort Shafter Military Reservation, Facilities No. 823, 825, 842, Herian Place, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI", 4 photos, 7 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
- Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. HI-9, "Fort Shafter Military Reservation, N.C.O. Housing Area, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI", 9 photos, 27 data pages, 3 photo caption pages