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This detail from a panorama of Camp Dodge, a World War I installation northwest of Des Moines, shows soldiers' living quarters. After the war these barracks were torn down and the wood was used to build residences, some of them in Ames. Specifically, several small houses on the south side of Lincoln Way, about two blocks west of the Iowa Department of Transportation, were built using that lumber. Camp Dodge was an important U.S. Army training venue for soldiers from the Midwest in 1917 and 1918. Today [2004], it is the headquarters of the Iowa National Guard.