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Farm dispersal through wartime expansion near Pine Camp
On Thanksgiving 1940 the Sampson family heard Uncle Sam would seize their 110 acre Pines Plains farm for a Fort Drum expansion. The $20 million project displaced 525 families, leveling schools and churches as 15 000 troops trained. Photographs from the era document the upheaval and lasting memory.
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Washington
Mable Sampson Churchill
Burrville
Watertown
New York
Pine Camp
Hitler
France
Britain
LeRaysville
Sterlingville
Woods Mills
Lewisburg
North Wilna
Nauvoo
James Neville
Fort Drum
Neville
Sampsons
Pines Plains
Buck's Creek
Sampson
Churchill
Montgomery Ward
Dan Sampson
Sam