German Prisoner of War Camp - Woodland Heritage Trail - Stark, NH
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nomadwillie
N 44° 37.117 W 071° 23.254
19T E 310577 N 4943357
The Woodland Heritage Trail is route in that circles Mt Cabot, using NH routes 110, US3, US2 and NH16. On the northern part of route on NH110 in Stark, NH this marker nestled on the tree line can easily missed.
Waymark Code: WM16500
Location: New Hampshire, United States
Date Posted: 05/07/2022
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The Woodland Heritage Trail is route in that circles Mt Cabot, using NH routes 110, US3, US2 and NH16. On the northern part of route on NH110 in Stark, NH this marker nestled on the tree line can easily missed.
The marker reads:
"In the spring of 1944 a high fence and four guard towers transformed a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp on this site into New Hampshire's sole World War II prisoner of war camp. Approximately 250 German and Austrian soldiers, most captured in North Africa and Normandy, lived in Camp Stark while working in the forest cutting pulpwood vital to wartime industry. The camp closed in the spring of 1946 when the prisoners of war were returned to their homeland. Several maintained the new friendships they had formed with local residents. Germans and Americans attended a reunion here in 1986."
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Program: US State Program
Website: [Web Link]
Official Name: Woodland Heritage Trail
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