[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Former Dow Air Force Base (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bangor reflects on Dow Air Force Base closure, 55 years later
After all this time, Bangor continues to be a major hub for northern and central Maine.

By Lorraine Muir
News Center Maine
April 5, 2023
 
BANGOR, Maine — Fifty-five years ago on Wednesday, Dow Air Force Base in Bangor closed, leaving a sizable void in the community.

Local historian Tom McCord, an adjunct history professor at the University of Maine at Augusta, described how the Dow Air Force Base sprawled across 2,000 acres, creating a "mini-city."
Dow Air Force Base was home to a movie theater, small radio station, a rod and gun club, dining halls, enlisted men's clubs, a Merchants National Bank, and more.

The base with its amenities all closed by April 5, 1968.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/history/bangor-reflects-on-dow-air-force-base-closure-55-years-later-military-history-local-community-economy-maine/97-0b5438d9-d19e-466d-899f-09a8d493f973

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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