Farragut

The station went up at wartime speed. Ground was broken in March 1942, and more than 22,000 men worked ten-hour shifts, thirteen days in every fourteen, much of it in green lumber cut on the site. President Roosevelt named it for Admiral David Farragut on May 30 and drove through it on September 21, six days after it was formally established. Its training camps were named for sailors killed in action, the first for Captain Mervyn Bennion; some of those so honored died at Pearl Harbor. The station's brig survives as the park's museum.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farragut State Park — steps away
  The Navy built its second-largest boot camp 375 miles from the ocean, and still tests submarines on the lake.

More markers nearby

• Bayview Limekilns — 2.2 mi
• Submarine Testing — 2.2 mi
• Pen d'Oreille City — 3.8 mi
• Gladys Buroker (1914-2002) — 3.8 mi