University Park in Dayton in Montgomery County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Sugar Camp WAVES Cabin

ca. 1943

Photographed by Craig Doda, May 22, 2021

1. Sugar Camp WAVES Cabin Marker

Inscription. In April, 1943 Col. Edward A. Deeds opened the residential cabins at Sugar Camp, built several years earlier as a summer school for sales personnel, to house the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) working in a joint top-secret World War II code-breaking project for the US Navy and NCR. Initially 300 women were housed in the sixty cabins and had access to a dining hall, four classrooms, a recreation building, administration building, outdoor swimming pool and baseball diamond. These women were hand-picked by the Navy to fill essential jobs in the manufacture and operation of critical code-breaking machines, especially the American "Bombe", which significantly hastened the end of the war.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Communications • War, World II • Women. A significant historical month for this entry is April 1943.

Location. 39° 43.701′ N, 84° 12.057′ W. Marker is in Dayton, Ohio, in Montgomery County. It is in University Park. It can be reached from Carillon Boulevard 0.2 miles west of South Patterson Boulevard, on the left when traveling west. Touch for map.

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Marker is at or near this postal address: 1000 Carillon Blvd, Dayton OH 45409, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Ohio’s Miami Valley.

It is also in the American Midwest

and in the Corn Belt.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: United States Naval Computing Machine Laboratory (a few steps from this marker); Sugar Camp / WAVES Cabin 22 (a few steps from this marker); Corliss Engine Building (a few steps from this marker); Deeds Barn (within shouting distance of this marker); The Old River Park Swimming Pool Light Tower (within shouting distance of this marker); Newcom House (within shouting distance of this marker); Dayton Sales (within shouting distance of this marker); William Morris House (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of

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Photographed by Craig Doda, May 22, 2021

2. Sugar Camp WAVES Cabin

all markers in Dayton.

Credits. This page was last revised on February 4, 2023. It was originally submitted on May 24, 2021, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 865 times since then and 57 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on May 24, 2021, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.