Camp Meigs is established.

(Sept.) Originally the Massachusetts Military Training Camp, it is located on part of the Ebenezer Paul farm at today’s 11 Stanbro Street. Renamed for Montgomery Meigs, the quartermaster general of the Union Army in September 1862, it is used as a barracks and training facility for some 55 military units and nearly 30,000 soldiers, including three of the Union’s earliest black regiments, the Massachusetts Second, Fifty-Fourth, and Fifty-Fifth Regiments. The Readville General Military Hospital opens here in June 1864. The land is sold in 1866, used as a racetrack and for warehousing. Most of the site is purchased for creation of the Neponset River’s Fowl Meadow Reservation in 1899, and the remainder becomes a city park in 1903.*