Roughly bounded by General Booth Blvd., S. Birdneck Rd., and the Atlantic Ocean within Military Reservation Property, Virginia Beach (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Virginia Beach.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 26, 2005. NRIS 04000852.
113 contributing buildings. 8 contributing sites. 8 contributing structures. 1 contributing object.Also known as:
Camp Pendleton is a 325-acre (1.32 km2) state military reservation in Virginia Beach, Virginia, named after Confederate Brigadier General William N. Pendleton, who served as Robert E. Lee's chief of artillery during the American Civil War. It lies on the Atlantic coast slightly east of Naval Air Station Oceana.
Since Camp Pendleton is owned by the State of Virginia and not the federal government, the facility was not covered by The Naming Commission's mandate to rename US military installations. However, in January 2021 Governor Ralph Northam "directed his administration to review and recommend a replacement name for Camp Pendleton". Northam was unable to rename this base before he was replaced as governor in January 2022 by Glenn Youngkin who decided not to continue his predecessor's uncompleted work. By March 2023, the Virginia National Guard added this statement to the installation's official website: "The Virginia National Guard no longer uses the Camp Pendleton designation and now refers to it only by the original name of the State Military Reservation".
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684005