Fort Hoyle

Between the summer of 1940 and the declaration of war, two changes were effected at CWS installations. In August 1940 Fort Hoyle, a Field Artillery installation adjacent to Edgewood Arsenal, was vacated and the land and buildings turned over to the CWS. This space was sorely needed in the period of expansion. In December 1940 an arsenal operations department was set up at Edgewood to supervise strictly arsenal functions such as production, service, and inspection. 

Lt. Col. Henry Linsert, a Regular Army CWS officer, arrived at Edge-wood Arsenal early in December 1940 to organize and take command of the replacement center. A site for the installation was selected in the troop area previously included in Fort Hoyle, where the necessary barracks, mess halls, and company administration buildings—seventy-nine structures in... 

Fort Hoyle was a field artillery station maintained within the Edgewood Arsenal military reservation until 1940-... 

---