Historic California
Posts, Camps, Stations and Airfields
Camp Hooker
Established on August 21, 1862, near Stockton
in San Joaquin County, by Captain J. B. Moore, 3rd California Volunteers, with four companies
of troops, aggregating 174 men, the post was evacuated in October
1862. Nothing remains of this tent camp that was located along
today's McKinney Avenue south of California Street.