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WHERE WE
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SKETCH OF INFOAGE CAMPUS A sketch of the main area of the 37 acre Camp Evans historic district in 1945. The future Main Campus of InfoAge Science-History Center. [return to selection table] |
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WHO WE
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Infoage
is a group of cooperating non-profit organizations dedicated to
inspiring students to learn science and engineering at this unique
historic site. We are working on the
preservation
and education of information age technologies, as we honor the pioneers
of communications. Our member and
visitors
are benefiting from the dynamic and
evolving atmosphere created
by
this concentration of information technology experts and unique
exhibits.
Welcome to our website with over 1000 pages of information.
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 Our Mission is to
develop an
interactive learning center focused on the information age technologies
at historic Camp Evans. We are creating a "Living Memorial"
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Students and families will be inspired to learn science and history in
the very same buildings important W.W.II science and history was
made. We aim to inspire people of all ages to learn
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NOT JUST ANOTHER SCIENCE CENTER We
have
a distinct mission and a history that sets us apart. Our site is
at Camp Evans in Wall, New
Jersey.
The site is listed on the National Register of
Historic Places. Camp Evans was once the 1914 Marconi Belmar
Wireless station, opened world-wide wireless communications, played
an important roll in W.W.I trans-Atlantic
communications, the first
campus
of The King's College, played a key roll the
development
of radar as an effective W.W.II secret weapon, opened
space communications in 1946, was a cold war technology site, a
nuclear
weapons research site, visited by Senator
Joseph
McCarthy as he suspected a communist spy ring may have been
operating
here, the birthplace of satellite based
hurricane tracking, was a pre-NASA space research site, and is a black
history site. Many of the most significant contributors to
communications
technology from the early days of spark-gap wireless technology to 1998
when microwave, fiber optics and satellite technology were proven
technologies
have worked at this historic site.
We are the home of the National Broadcaster Hall of Fame. We are actively working to open the TIROS 1 and 2 Ground Control Station building as a space science education facility at the former Project Diana site. Our target is the spring of 2007. The National Park Service has approved our application to use 37 acres of Camp Evans and all the buildings in the historic district to help improve the public understanding of science, technology, and science history. At this time 8 buildings and 20 acres have been transfered for InfoAge use. Once the DOD Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) group completes the site remediation the remander of the property will be transferred to Wall Township for Infoage use. The BRAC project, begun in 1993, was expected to be completed in 1998, should be completed in September 2008. Infoage
and
its member groups are now working to preserve Camp Evans and its new
educational mission is under way. We are cleaning around
buildings, painting building exteriors and interiors, and making
repairs to expand our capacity. You are invited to join this
excellent work to save
history, honor the communication pioneers of wireless, W.W.I, W.W.II,
space
exploration and the cold war.
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Thanks
to the support of the National Trust for Historic Preservation,
Congressman Smith, the Congressman's district Director Ms. Loretta
Charboneau, and Candace Mueller, Preservation New Jersey, the Wall
Township Committee, our
Township Attorney Mr. Roger McLaughlin and the Camp Evans RAB the
substantial progress made toward the preservation and reuse of the Camp
Evans Historic District recently delayed by the Pentagon BRAC
office is now back on track. [return to selection table] |
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