Keywords: Fort Devens
Item 101522
Private Elmer Greenleaf and Forest Lewis, Fort Devens, ca. 1918
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1918 Location: Westport Island; Ayer Media: Photographic print
Item 101542
Archie Cunningham, Westport Island, ca. 1941
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1941 Location: Westport Island; South Portland; Ayer Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Black soldiers served in Maine during World War II, assigned in small numbers throughout the state to guard Grand Trunk rail lines from a possible German attack. The soldiers, who lived in railroad cars near their posts often interacted with local residents.
Exhibit
Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
