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Campo is a community in the Mountain Empire area of southeastern San Diego County, California. The Campo area consists of three clusters of development. Campo, Lake Morena and Cameron Corners. The community of Cameron Corners is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south. The village of Lake Moreno is the northern part of Campo. It is 50 miles (80 km) southeast of San Diego. Campo was a military town in the 1940s and home to the Buffalo Soldiers. During World War II, it was known as Camp Lockett and had a veterans convalescent hospital. Camp Lockett housed a 300-bed Italian Prisoner-of-war camp in Cameron Corners. The Army’s all African American Cavalry unit patrolled the border on horseback until 1944. The United States Military continues to maintain activities nearby at La Posta Mountain Warfare Training Facility. Campo is home to three museums: The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum, the Motor Transport Museum and the Gaskill Brothers Stone Store. The town is along the line of the former Southern Pacific (originally San Diego and Arizona Railway. Freight operations are currently embargoed (not offered) by the Carrizo Gorge Railway, currently the Pacific Imperial Railroad), while passenger operations are operated by the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum. The Railroad Museum shows an address of 750 Depot Street A CDF fire station is located at 31577 State Route 94. The 1998 Cameron Corners, California 7.5-minute quadrangle plots the station near Dewey Place and SR 94. A Southern California Automobile Association map, believed to be c. 1910-1930, shows a business named "Dewey Store" in Cameron Corners. The business is plotted on the north side of SR 94 just east of County Road S1. This may be a variant name of Dewey Place. There is a county road maintenance station on Forrest Gate Road and a county fire station at Jeb Stewart Road and Parker Road. Campo is near the official southern terminus of the Pacific Crest Trail, a recreational hiking and equestrian trail extending 2,650 miles (4,260 km) north to the Canada–US border.

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