HOUSTON – A lawn crew uncovered an old World War I-era artillery shell while working at Houston’s Memorial Park on Tuesday. Houston police safely detonated the shell later that day.

Given the park’s history, the find is not entirely surprising.

Memorial Park was once Camp Logan, a military training base active from 1917 to 1919. The park’s name honors the soldiers who trained there and later went off to war.

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Today, joggers and golfers use the park’s trails. But more than 100 years ago, about 70,000 troops trained on the same ground for World War I. Nearly 1,000 of those soldiers never returned home, and more than 6,000 were wounded.

The park covers roughly 7,600 acres that once made up Camp Logan,

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