Menlo Park, California city, survived until 1922, when the original arch was destroyed in an automobile accident. The origin of the name of "Menlo Park, California" ("ca" 1850) pre-dates any work done by Thomas Edison ("ca" 1876) in Menlo Park, New Jersey; Menlo Park, New Jersey was named after Menlo Park, California. In 1917/1918 a large portion of Menlo Park was the site of Camp Fremont, a training camp for, at its height, 27,000 men being sent to fight in World War I. It didn't last long (the camp was dismantled after the war), but army engineers paved the first streets in Menlo
Menlo College college dean and soon-to-be Navy veteran, as Howard's successor. The former estate of the Leon F. Douglass family, which was adjacent to Menlo, housed a rehabilitation center for World War II veterans until 1946. The Douglass family supported Menlo in acquiring the newly vacant property, and plans were made to move the school (grades 7 to 10, and later, 11 and 12) to that area. The School of Business Administration (SBA) was established in 1949 as the college's first four-year program. This was a timely move, as Stanford had just dropped its undergraduate business courses to focus more on the