Polling for the 2017 Readerâs Choice Awards took place between Dec. 25, 2016 and Jan. 1, 2017.
It was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Shangri-La and later renamed Camp David after Dwight Eisenhower's grandson, David Eisenhower. It was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Shangri-La and later renamed Camp David after Dwight Eisenhower's grandson, David Eisenhower. President Roosevelt called the Camp Shangri-La after the mountain kingdom in James Hilton's book Lost Horizon. It was renamed Camp David in 1953 by President Eisenhower in honor of his grandson.
By October 1944, Camp Pendleton was declared a permanent installation and by 1946, it became the home of the 1st Marine Division. It was named after Major General Joseph Henry Pendleton (1860â1942), who had long advocated setting up a training base for the Marine Corps on the west coast.