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Camp Livingston is a WWII abandoned military camp located in Grant parish Louisiana.

Camp Livingston was open from 1940-1945 and was first known as Camp Tioga.
It was renamed Camp Livingston in honor of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston,
negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase. It was home to the 28th, 32nd, 38th
 and 86th Infantry Divisions during the war. 
Camp Livingston was designated as an infantry replacement training center,
as well as a garrison for these infantry divisions. The 38th Division was
known as the "Avengers of Bataan" and the 86th Division was the first American
unit to cross the Danube River into Germany. Over 500,000 troops trained on
the 47,000-acre base during the war. The Camp also held German and Italian
POWs after the war. On some old concrete walls in the site, beautiful artwork
and graffiti has been discovered and is thought to have been drawn by Italian POWs.

Camp Livingston was deactivated in late 1945 and is now part of the
Kisatchie National Forest.
 
Today you can drive on the abandoned roads that criss cross the area like a small 
town. On the sides of the road you can see the foundations of buildings, driveways
parking lots and sidewalks. For more info see http://camp-livingston.winnfreenet.com/