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=== 20th century === The [[Grove, Virginia|Grove Community]] in the southeastern end of the county was populated with many [[African-American]] families displaced during [[World War I]] and [[World War II]] as the military reservations for the [[Naval Weapons Station Yorktown]] and [[Camp Peary]] respectively were created on the sites of the [[Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia|lost towns]] of [[Lackey, Virginia|Lackey]] and [[Magruder, Virginia|Magruder]]. At the southwestern edge of Grove, the U.S. Army's [[Camp Wallace]] operated from 1918 to 1971. It was a satellite facility of [[Fort Eustis]], which was established as Camp Abraham Eustis in neighboring Warwick County in 1918. In this hilly terrain, the base had its Upper Artillery Range. Some years after World War II, Camp Wallace became was the site of the Army's first installation of its [[aerial tramway]]. The Camp Wallace property became part of the Anheuser Busch developments beginning in the 1970s.
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