Long before Charlotte was a world-class city and major financial center, the Queen City was a town known for its collection of cotton mills.
That changed during World War I when the city was home to Camp Greene, a huge military training camp with thousands of tents for soldiers. Camp Greene had so many of these tents it was affectionately known as the City of Canvas.
Camp Greene was a massive city within a city. It covered 6,000 acres, stretching from a few miles from downtown on what is now Wilkinson Boulevard, west to the Catawba River and Gaston County. At its peak, more soldiers trained at Camp Greene than the entire population of Charlotte, North Carolina, at the time.
In this video, WCNC Charlotte forecaster Larry Sprinkle speaks with a documentary filmmaker to learn the history of Camp Greene and its significance to the American war effort during World War I.
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15 авг 2022
