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Message:: [QUOTE="Jwt708, post: 2207581, member: 32619"]Because it's been a while since I nerded out on a trade token, I did just a little more research into this token. Ft Steward's name was changed in 1922 to Chilkoot Barracks, so you know the token is at least that old. Wikipedia says the 30th was activated first as the 9th but with the outbreak of WWI redesignated as the 30th. Now here things get fuzzy. Information about the unit from the Old Hickory Association says, "The 30th Infantry Division war created in September 1917 at Camp Sevier, SC, when National Guard units from Tennessee, North and South Carolina were placed together to form a division." No mention is made of them spending any time in Alaska before going overseas or after. According to the National Register of Historic Places, it was Companies of the 3rd Infantry that first inhabbited the Fort, with no mention of who was there after November 1902. So...Cunningham may have it wrong. Later I'll look at the Camp in SC and see what, if any, tokens are listed there. Maybe we can track this one down. Cunningham does identify this one with another base in California and also listed it as a Maverick in the index.[/QUOTE]