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- Preserving California's
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- Camp Curtis
- (Camp on Janes
Farm)
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- Today, all that remains of Camp Curtis
is a California Historical Landmark. Before its official establishment
in September 1862 was called Camp on Janes Farm and was used
by local volunteer companies of the California Militia as early
as 1858. Camp Curtis was the headquarters of the 1st
Battalion of Mountaineers of California Volunteers from 1862
until 1865. In 1863, Captain George Ousley and 34 soldiers of
Company B of the Battalion first garrisoned Camp Curtis near
Daby's s Ferry and then moved to Fawn Prairie on the Hoopa Trail.
A bronze tablet commemorating the camp's site was unveiled on
October 5, 1930.
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- Location:
Location: Take the Sunset Avenue off ramp from US Highway 101,
go North 0.9 mile on L. K. Wood Boulevard frontage road in Arcata
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