Fort Devens-Sudbury Training Annex
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The Fort Devens-Sudbury Training Annex was a former annex of Fort Devens
that was operational from 1942 to the 1990s. It originally opened as an ammunition dump for the base, and old railroad lines and bunkers can still be seen in the area. It then functioned as a dumping ground for the Natick Laboratories until the 1980s. In the 1990s, the site was cleaned up and turned into the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge
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Fort Devens
Fort Devens is an active United States military installation in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It was named after jurist and Civil War general Charles Devens. The nearby Devens Reserve Forces Training Area is...
that was operational from 1942 to the 1990s. It originally opened as an ammunition dump for the base, and old railroad lines and bunkers can still be seen in the area. It then functioned as a dumping ground for the Natick Laboratories until the 1980s. In the 1990s, the site was cleaned up and turned into the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge
Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge
Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge, formerly referred to as the U.S. Army's Fort Devens-Sudbury Training Annex, is a parcel of land located approximately west of Boston, and west of the Eastern Massachusetts National Wildlife Refuge Complex Headquarters. It is located in portions of the...
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External links
- http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/sudbury.htm
- http://classes.colgate.edu/dkeller/geol101/sums/fortd.htm