Camp Polk

This smoke stack is all that's left of Camp Polk.  The land is now the North Carolina Museum of Art.  

Confederate soldiers trained here at Camp Mangum, which later became Camp Polk, a World War 1 tank training facility.  In 1920 it became Camp Polk Prison Farm, which initially incarcerated primarily African American men.  The infamous prison farm became a youth detention center and later was shut down, and sat vacant for many years.  In 2001 the land was reassigned to the museum.