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| WALL -The historic district
at Camp Evans is being added to the National Register of His- toric Places, the federal list of the nation's historic sites worthy of preservation . For 86 years, until it was closed in 1993, Camp Evans was one of the world's leading tele- communications research and development facilities. The site was closed as part of the post- Cold War effort to streamline the military, and the Army has been cleaning it up for transfer to public and educational use. The national register designa- tion was granted for, a portion of the site that includes the Mar- coni Hotel and other buildings. The remainder will be used for recreation. "As the land at Camp Evans, is being transferred from the Army to civilian use, it's impor- tant to preserve some of the his- toric work that was done at the |
site;" said Fred Carl, director of
INFOAGE Inc., a nonprofit cor- poration that is working to es- tablish the center. "Our goal is to save Camp Evans and creatively reuse the historic buildings and grounds as a Science History Center fo- cused on communications, com- puter, radio technology and radio entertainment history," Carl said. The final paperwork needed to add Camp Evans to the na- tional register was signed in Washington yesterday. By being listed on the national register, INFOAGE can compete, for state and federal grants restricted to these historic sites, Carl said. INFOAGE's collection includes the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame collection and museum once located in Freehold and 7,000 pieces of computer history, in- cluding parts for, the first com- puter made during World War II, Carl said . |
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