Naval Air Station Jacksonville From 1907 to Present - CNIC.Navy.mil ...

Dec. 4, 1916 - Earl Dodge establishes School of Aviation at Black Point, utilizing three Curtiss
hydroaeroplanes. School lasts seven months.
Oct. 1, 1917 - Construction begins at Camp Johnston (near Yukon).
Oct. 15, 1917 - Camp Joseph E. Johnston commissioned.
Nov. 19, 1917 - First group of enlisted and officers arrive for training.
Dec. 1917 - Camp Johnston selected as a remount station, known as Auxiliary Remount Depot
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Jan. 19, 1918 - United States soldiers from Camp Johnston took up duties of guarding
Jacksonville's public utilities.
April 18, 1918 - Trolley line from city to Camp Johnston gate finished.
April 18, 1919 - Major McCauley sets transcontinental speed record of 25 hours, 45 minutes
between San Diego and Camp Johnston.
May 16, 1919 - Camp Johnston officially closed.
July 12, 1919 - Base Hospital (126 acres) transferred to Treasury Department for Public Health
Service.
July 23, 1920 - Abandonment of Camp Johnston complete.
Feb. 24, 1921 – Lt. William Corey (U.S. Army) sets transcontinental speed record of 22 hours,
7 minutes between San Diego and landing at Camp Johnston.
June 22, 1921 - Fire destroys military warehouses at Yukon.
Aug. 21, 1921 - Public land and more than 200 buildings at Camp Johnston offered as a campus
for veterans vocational training university that federal officials proposed to built in the south.
Jan. 9, 1925 - Camp Johnston recommended as site for Jacksonville's Municipal Airport.
June 7, 1926 - War Department grants revocable license to State of Florida for lands to be used
for National Guard training.
March 31, 1928 - License given to state by War Department to erect a caretaker's cottage and to
construct gates.
June 18, 1928 - Site named Camp J. Clifford R. Foster.