Contributed by Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
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Description
German Prisoners of War, or POWs, were housed at Camp Houlton during World War II. Many of the POWs were put to work laboring locally on potato farms and in the woods, since most local young men had gone to war.
This rare view of the stockades of the prisoner of war area at likely was taken right after the war ended in 1945.
About This Item
- Title: Camp Houlton POW area, Houlton, ca. 1945
- Creation Date: circa 1945
- Subject Date: circa 1945
- Location: Camp Houlton, Houlton, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photograph
- Dimensions: 6.3 cm x 11.4 cm
- Collection: Moloney Family Collection
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Concentration camps--Maine--Houlton
- Detention facilities--Maine--Houlton
- Farms and farming--Maine--Houllton
- Prisoners of war--German--Maine--Houlton
- Prisons--Maine--Houlton
- United States. Army--Facilities--Maine--Houlton
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners
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Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum109 Main Street, Houlton, ME 04730
207-532-4216
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