[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Ben Harrison (IN)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Ben Harrison, another story of BRAC '91

By Don Eriksson
Groton Landmark (CT)
August 5, 2005

DEVENS -- The conversion of Fort Benjamin Harrison, a former Army base 
near Indianapolis, Ind., and a sister to Devens in the base realignment 
and closure (BRAC) of 1991, is enjoying a resurgence different from the 
Devens experience but with enough shared history to make a comparison 
worthwhile.

Both Army camps began life in the days prior to World War I. They 
supported training camps and military schools for decades. Both faced 
closure at least twice before demilitarization in the mid-1990s, and 
both are home to an Army Reserve Center that has recently been on the 
defense department hit list.

Both former military bases have seen their brick officer's housing 
converted to private homes, and both have planned historic districts. 
Streets at Devens are named for famous battles. Streets at Benjamin 
Harrison are named for individual soldiers.

That is roughly where the similarity ends, however, for while both are 
guided by a reuse plan, their geo-political circumstances are entirely 
different.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.grotonlandmark.com/Stories/0,1413,107~5178~2997036,00.html


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Lenny Siegel
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