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QUARRY HEIGHTS -- WHAT TRANSFERRED
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Transferred to
Panama January 8, 1998 |
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134.4 acres
with a total of 121
buildings (including the headquarters building 88 (Montague
Hall), smaller Andrews Hall building , conference room building,
other buildings, underground tunnel used as a joint operations
center and communications facilities, officers club, post office,
tennis court) and 57 family housing quarters, including
family housing on Morgan Avenue located at the base of Ancon Hill
below Quarry Heights.
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A total value of about $19.2 million in facilities and land.
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Quarry Heights closed as a military post essentially on
September 26, 1997, and the last of the Headquarters Southern
Command staff still in Panama (including Marine General Charles E.
Wilhelm who had arrived that evening to assume command after
having been confirmed as commander-in-chief that morning by the
U.S. Senate) departed Howard Air Force Base the next morning to
Miami, Florida, SouthCom's new home. |
Building 88
(Montague Hall) [US
Army photo - from SCTI 1994 pamphlet] |
Building 88
(Montague Hall) (Building 150 in background) [From
Southern Command's Dialogo magazine] |
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Building 83
(Andrews Hall) |
Typical officers quarters
(Quarters 8) at Quarry Heights [Photo by Bob
Medinger/Colin Creel
from their website www.panamavacationquarters.com
used with permission] |
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