Mercier said the Camp Butner Society still hopes to open a permanent museum in a wood-frame building the Army built at Butner in 1942, most likely as a soldiers’ lounge. The town has agreed to ...

This town exists because the U.S. Army chose this part of Granville County to build a 40,000-acre camp to train soldiers for combat during World War II.

A big cloud of smoke above Durham County Thursday was the result of a controlled burn at Camp Butner. "Well, there is that old adage, fight fire with fire. If ever it was true, this is where we ...

CAMP BUTNER, N.C. - The North Carolina National Guard's Camp Butner training center hosted the 2018 Eastern Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) Games and Matches, April 26 to May 6.

CAMP BUTNER, N.C. -- Soldiers of the 3rd Military Information Support Battalion took part in a civil support exercise here last week to test how they would response to an emergency and support ...

The News & Observer of Raleigh reports efforts are underway to open the Camp Butner Museum. ... The Camp Butner Society plans to house the museum in a building the Army built in 1942.

Outside of Manhattan’s sweaty “Jacobs Beach,” shrine of U.S. fisticuffs, the boxingest place in the U.S. is probably Camp Butner, near Durham, N.C. There every soldier boxes as a regular ...

Sometime while he was at Camp Butner, the sprawling base north of Durham where the Army trained soldiers for combat during World War II, John E. Earley either lost or discarded a pair of dog tags.

The second is having a good burn. The target was National Guard land at Camp Butner, a training base for the Guard. "Today we are doing about 290 acres, yesterday we did about 250.