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Opening Salvo For Camp Wikoff National Military Park in Montauk

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Sighting transports off Fort Pond Bay.

Sighting transports off Fort Pond Bay. "Bully! Colonel Theodore Roosevelt

the Rough Riders & Camp Wikofff

the Rough Riders & Camp Wikofff

Montauk

Montauk

By Virginia Garrison on Jun 26, 2012
At the moment it’s just a vision: Camp Wikoff National Military Park in Montauk, where veterans of the Spanish-American War were sent in 1898 to recover from tropical fever. Montauk... more

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