Camp Polk Location Marker

In September 1918, Camp Polk was designed to become the country’s only training ground for the new armored vehicles known as "tanks." The state fair, held across Hillsborough Street from the NC State campus, was canceled for that fall and the exhibition grounds were turned into a camping area. The grandstands were turned into a large garage for lumbering used British training tanks that had been recovered from the battlefields of France and 16,000 soldiers and construction workers moved in. Closed shortly after the end of the war.

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Source

• Text: NCSU
• Photos: Charles Freeman