The Conservation Research Center (CRC) is a unit of the Smithsonian Institution located on a sprawling 3,200-acre (13 km) campus located just outside the historic town of Front Royal, Virginia. An extension of the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., the CRC has played a leading role in the fields of veterinary medicine, reproductive physiology and conservation biology since its founding in 1974.
The land on which the CRC lies has a long...
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The Conservation Research Center (CRC) is a unit of the Smithsonian Institution located on a sprawling 3,200-acre (13 km) campus located just outside the historic town of Front Royal, Virginia. An extension of the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., the CRC has played a leading role in the fields of veterinary medicine, reproductive physiology and conservation biology since its founding in 1974.
The land on which the CRC lies has a long and rich history dating back to 1909, when the United States Army leased some forty-two area farms. In the years predating World War I, the land served as a series of cavalry remount stations, supplying horses and mules to the military. The federal government ultimately purchased the land in 1911 and began construction on the Ayleshire Quartermaster Remount Depot. Completed in 1916, the Depot consisted of eleven barn and stable facilities, hundreds of miles of split-rail fencing, many miles of access roads, and even a rail yard facility for...
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