Camp Evans Camp Evans is a former military base associated with Fort Monmouth , in the U . S . state of New Jersey . It is located in Wall Township , although it is often said to be located in Belmar ( its postal zip code is Belmar ' s , although it lies outside the borough ) . The property overlooks the Shark River . Camp Evans is named after Lt . Col . Paul Wesley Evans of the Signal Corps , who worked in the development of wireless transmission at the Belmar Station in the early 20th century . After World War I , Evans was reassigned to the Panama Canal Zone as the presiding Signal Officer . Marconi ' s Wall Township Station . The original buildings were built by the American Marconi Company under a contract to the J . G . White Engineering Corp . between 1912 and 1914 as part of Guglielmo Marconi ' s " wireless girdle " around the Earth . It was then known as the Belmar Station ( ) . The Belmar Station served as Marconi ' s receiving station , " duplexed " with his New Brunswick ( ) high power transmitting station . An operator in Wall keyed the New Brunswick transmitter , 32 miles to the northwest , through a landline connection . Edwin Armstrong and David Sarnoff tested and perfected the regenerative circuit at the Wall site , on the night of January 31 / February 1 , 1914 . The US Navy . All of the Marconi stations were seized by the U . S . Navy when the United States entered World War I in April 1917 . Early in the war , Albert H . Taylor , later the father of Naval radar , was in charge of all transatlantic communications , including the Belmar and New Brunswick stations as well as the transmitter stations in Tuckerton , New Jersey and Marion , MA ; and the receiver stations in Chatham , MA and Otter Cliffs , ME . On January 8 , 1918 , President Woodrow Wilson ' s Fourteen Points speech was transmitted by the New Brunswick Naval Radio Station to Germany ' s Nauen Radio Station . In October Wilson ' s appeal for the abdication or overthrow of Kaiser Wilhelm II was sent through the powerful New Brunswick station . RCA . At the end of the war , the property was briefly returned to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America , which was acquired by the Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) in October 1919 . RCA sold the Wall site in 1924 , when they consolidated all of their transatlantic receivers at their new Riverhead Receiver Station on Long Island , New York . The historic New Brunswick transmitter site served as an important communications link to the United Kingdom during both world wars . Monmouth Pleasure Club . From 1925 to 1935 , the property was owned by the Monmouth County Pleasure Club . The Pleasure Club had close ties to Arthur H . Bell and the Ku Klux Klan . Disputes over development of the property ended in a court battle that was reported in " The New York Times " . New York Times Articles : Klan has summer resort , June 20 , 1926 Klan loses Jersey lawsuit , September 9 , 1929 The King ' s College . The Young People ' s Association for the Propagation of the Gospel purchased the Belmar station in 1936 . The King ' s College opened in September 1938 under the leadership of Percy Crawford . It aimed to combine the Arts and Sciences with a Christian education and began with 67 students . When it was denied accreditation , it relocated . Presently , The King ' s College is located in the Empire State Building in New York City . World War II . The U . S . Army purchased the land in November 1941 to create a top - secret research facility . Radar was partly developed and vastly improved for Army applications at Camp Evans . Other partners in radar development included Fort Hancock , the MIT Radiation Laboratory , AT & T , Western Electric , General Electric , and Chrysler . A unit designed by Camp Evans engineers detected enemy planes 50 minutes before the bombing of Pearl Harbor . Camp Evans radar was a major factor in the U . S . victory during World War II . Army Research . During and after World War II , Camp Evans was an important Black history site . Black engineers made major contributions to electronic research , development , product distribution and training . After World War II , the Army kept Camp Evans as a research facility . The base was part of Project Paperclip , under which German scientists and engineers were relocated and employed by the U . S . Army , including Wernher von Braun . Project Diana opened the space age , showing that radio waves could pierce the ionosphere . This proved that communication was possible between the Earth and space , opening the possibility of space exploration . Other contributions included work on light - emitting diode s , night vision goggles , and many other important developments . Senator Joseph McCarthy , Roy Cohn , and others came to Camp Evans on October 20 , 1953 . McCarthy claimed that the Army ' s " house of magic " was really a " house of spies . " Julius Rosenberg was executed for supposedly stealing radar and proximity fuze information from Fort Monmouth while working there as an electrical engineer in the 1940s . ( Documents released by Russia after the Cold War showed that Mr . Rosenberg was indeed , a Soviet Spy . ) McCarthy ' s visit destroyed careers and led to the creation of the " leper colony " - where those who could no longer be trusted with top secret information worked . None of the Camp Evans employees whom McCarthy investigated in 1953 and 1954 were ever prosecuted . The U . S . Army Signal Corps scientists at Camp Evans and Deal Test Site in Ocean Township tracked Sputnik . The Institute for Exploratory Research was created and based out of Camp Evans . The army base played an important role in satellite development and space exploration . Dr . Hans Ziegler was responsible for the first application of solar cell s as a power source for satellites . Camp Evans played an important role in the development of the silicon transistor . It featured a nuclear dosimetry laboratory and a photo - optics lab . It tracked Pioneer 5 . Camp Evans worked with projects Joint STARS , REMBASS , Firefinder , Pulsed Power ( part of Ronald Reagan ' s Strategic Defense Initiative ) , and others . InfoAge . The former Camp Evans base is now being turned into the Infoage Science / History Learning Center . Quoting from their website : " InfoAge is a group of cooperating non - profit organization dedicated to the preservation and education of information age technologies , as we honor the pioneers of communications . " InfoAge volunteers have succeeded in having Camp Evans listed on the National Register of Historic Places , in the creation of a Camp Evans historic district , and is a Save America ' s Treasures official project . Volunteers are also working to restore the buildings after years of Army neglect . The land and buildings have been given to the National Park Service for InfoAge ' s use through the United States Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure process . Recent developments . Currently , parts of what was the Camp Evans base have been given to the Infoage Science / History Learning Center , Brookdale Community College and the North Wall Little League Foundation .