Charleston Port Terminal
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Description:
Sepia toned photograph of the Animal Embarkation Depot at the Charleston Port Terminal. Two large stacks of hay bales can be seen under roofed shelters beside the train tracks and several fenced corrals and wooden structures are visble in the background. The image was shot from the top of the stack of hay bales seen in photograph MK 10902z.
In 1918 the United States Government requisitioned 2000 acres located between North Charleston and the mouth of Goose Creek (approximately 15 miles north of the Charleston Harbor) for the Charleston Army Depot. The quartermaster facility along with the Ordnance Depot and the Animal Embarkation Depot formed what would officially be titled the Charleston Port Terminal but called the "Army Base Terminal" by locals.
- Title: Charleston Port Terminal
- Photographer: [Burton, E. Milby (1898-1977)]
- Date: 1919
- Collection: Photograph Collection
- Object Name: World War I
- Object Id: MK 10902aa
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