Freeman Community Club RV Park, Freeman MO
Camped at Freeman Community Club RV Park, Freeman MO, May 11, 2010
Freeman Community Club RV Park, Freeman MO
- This small roadside RV park offers 8 pullthrough campsites with 30/50 AMP electric, water and sewer for $15.00 per day
- There are no rest room facilities available.
- Good Verizon cell phone and EVDO service
- Find the Freeman Community Club RV Park on my Night Camps map
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Nights I've camped here
Heliograph routes of the 1890 Practice
The date was May 15th, 1890, and the Army's Department of Arizona had just completed a major heliograph practice; it was, in fact, the largest the world had ever seen. I call it the "Volkmar Practice", after the man responsible for it, Col. Wm. J. Volkmar, the Assistant Adjutant General and Chief Signal Officer for the Department of Arizona. Although the practice lasted only sixteen days, preparations for it took months of reconnaissance and preparation. Involved in the long range signaling maneuvers were twenty-five heliograph stations stretching from Whipple Barracks near Prescott to Fort Stanton near Ruidoso, New Mexico. My guess is that close to two hundred men were involved, both cavalry and infantry.