Camp Lee-Stephenson Monument – Quoddy Village, Eastport, Maine

Camp Lee-Stephenson is located at Quoddy Village, Eastport, Maine. In 1943 the Navy took possession of Quoddy Village from the National Youth Administration. The camp was built in 1935 by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to house workers for the world’s largest tidal dam project, the Passamaquoddy Dam. I have personal history with Quoddy Village when my father as part of the National Youth Administration during the Great Depression came to Eastport to work on the tidal dam project. It was here he first met my mother a native of Eastport. With the outbreak of World War II my father spent years in North Africa, India, Burma and China. After the war he returned to Eastport reconnected with Mom and eventually got married.

The post war camp was dedicated to two Naval officers who died during the war

Remnants of buildings left from the historic period

Jonesboro Historic Landmarks Park – Jonesboro, Maine

This small park on US Route 1 in Jonesboro has several historic markers, a small picnic area and a pleasant view of the Chandler River. The park is just a few hundred meters north of Hassey’s Riverside Park.

A green has several historic markers

Military memorial for WW I, WWII and Korea war veterans

Pleasant views of the river

Canopied picnic table available

Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site – Hubbardton, Vermont

The Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site preserves the site of the battlefield in the small village of Hubbardton, New York. The Battle of Hubbardton was an engagement in the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought in the village of Hubbardton, Vermont. Vermont was then a disputed territory sometimes called the New Hampshire Grants, claimed by New York, New Hampshire, and the newly organized and not yet recognized but de facto independent government of Vermont. On the morning of July 7, 1777, British forces, under General Simon Fraser, caught up with the American rear guard of the forces retreating after the withdrawal from Fort Ticonderoga. The battle took a large enough toll on the British forces that they did not further pursue the main American army. The many American prisoners were sent to Ticonderoga while most of the British troops made their way to Skenesboro to rejoin Burgoyne’s army. Most of the scattered American remnants made their way to rejoin St. Clair’s army on its way toward the Hudson River.

Ample signage

Arlington National Cemetery – Arlington, Virginia

Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia located across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.. Its 639 acres are the burial grounds of American military and political figures, including many killed in the nation’s conflicts beginning with the American Civil War and those reinterred from earlier conflicts. The United States Department of the Army, a component of the United States Department of Defense (DoD), manages the cemetery. Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial is administered by the National Park Service.

Quartermaster General of the Union Army Montgomery C. Meigs so upset with the death of his son buried him on the front lawn of Robert E. Lee’s home so it could never again be used as a residence.

Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial – Arlington, Virginia

Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, formerly named the Custis-Lee Mansion, is a Greek Revival style mansion located in Arlington County, Virginia that was once the home of Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee. It overlooks the Potomac River and the National Mall in Washington, D.C. During the American Civil War, the grounds of the mansion were selected as the site of Arlington National Cemetery, in part to ensure that Lee would never again be able to return to his home. The United States has since designated the mansion as a National Memorial. Although the United States Department of the Army controls Arlington National Cemetery, the National Park Service, a component of the United States Department of the Interior, administers Arlington House.