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===Establishment during World War I=== | ===Establishment during World War I=== | ||
Camp Devens, named after jurist and Civil War general [[Charles Devens]], was established on September 5, 1917, as a temporary [[cantonment]] for training soldiers during | Camp Devens, named after jurist and Civil War general [[Charles Devens]], was established on September 5, 1917, as a temporary [[cantonment]] for training soldiers during World War I. About {{convert|5000|acre}} of land was leased then later purchased from 112 owners who sold 230 parcels of land in the towns of [[Ayer, Massachusetts|Ayer]], [[Harvard, Massachusetts|Harvard]], [[Lancaster, Massachusetts|Lancaster]] and [[Shirley, Massachusetts|Shirley]] by the federal government. Some was fine farmland along the Nashua River and other was "sprout" land where trees had been cut leaving stumps. | ||
The Fort's siting was due primarily to its location at a major hub of the rail network in New England. Construction, by the largest labor force assembled in the United States, to build an entire city for 10,000 requiring barracks, training buildings, water and sewer systems, raced at the rate of 10.4 new buildings every day.<ref>{{cite web | title=history Fort Devens Museum | website=Fort Devens Museum | url=http://fortdevensmuseum.org/history/ | access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref> It was a reception center for war selectees and became a demobilization center after the war. As one of 16 temporary cantonments, Camp Devens processed and trained more than 100,000 soldiers.{{fact|date=March 2023}} Three divisions (the [[12th Division (United States)|12th]], the [[26th Infantry Division (United States)|26th]] and the [[76th Division (United States)|76th]]) were activated and trained at Devens during the war.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ayres |first=Leonard P. |author-link =Leonard Porter Ayres |title =The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924027816820 |publisher =Government Printing Office|edition =Second |date =1919 |location =Washington, DC |page =26 |isbn = 978-1449995034}}</ref> | The Fort's siting was due primarily to its location at a major hub of the rail network in New England. Construction, by the largest labor force assembled in the United States, to build an entire city for 10,000 requiring barracks, training buildings, water and sewer systems, raced at the rate of 10.4 new buildings every day.<ref>{{cite web | title=history Fort Devens Museum | website=Fort Devens Museum | url=http://fortdevensmuseum.org/history/ | access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref> It was a reception center for war selectees and became a demobilization center after the war. As one of 16 temporary cantonments, Camp Devens processed and trained more than 100,000 soldiers.{{fact|date=March 2023}} Three divisions (the [[12th Division (United States)|12th]], the [[26th Infantry Division (United States)|26th]] and the [[76th Division (United States)|76th]]) were activated and trained at Devens during the war.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ayres |first=Leonard P. |author-link =Leonard Porter Ayres |title =The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924027816820 |publisher =Government Printing Office|edition =Second |date =1919 |location =Washington, DC |page =26 |isbn = 978-1449995034}}</ref> | ||