UXO Site selected: Camp Gordon Artillery Range, GA
General Area: Marietta, GA

Site Type/Program: FUDS

Location: The former Camp Gordon Artillery Range included approximately 6000 acres of land located one mile east of Marietta, Georgia in Cobb County on the west half of Blackjack Mountain. Actual boundary lines cannot be determined, as acquisition and disposal documentation either could not be located or were reportedly destroyed in the 1950’ s. Approximate acreage is based on a Quartermaster Report, the Pease Report, as well as newspaper accounts of the happenings of this period in time. The site is presently residential in nature, with a portion of the lower section being utilized as a landfill area by the City of Marietta.

Brief History: In January of 1917, General Leonard Wood selected a site for the establishment of Camp Gordon. In August of 1917, the Blackjack Mountain location was selected to serve as the artillery range training area for Camp Gordon. Specific acquisition documentation was not located during archival research. The first soldiers arrived to begin building this range in November of 1917. The artillery, which consisted of three inch guns, was positioned near the present day Highway 41 and fired into the west side of Blackjack Mountain. Improvements to the site consisted of only a lavatory, which is no longer present. Documentation regarding disposal of the Camp Gordon Artillery Range was not located. Records at the General Service Administration Records Center indicate that disposal files on the site were destroyed in 1955. According to a local historian, the site was used as an artillery range from 1917 to 1918. Camp Gordon, the parent installation, was demobilized and abandoned on December 13, 1919.
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Activities Completed: The Archives Search Report for the former Camp Gordon Artillery Range was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, in August 1994.

Issues: The site inspection team could find no evidence to confirm the existence of ordnance and explosives (OE) at the site other than one story of a possible 3-inch round found about 20 years ago in area B.

Other Information: NOFA
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