Fort Devens
Fort Devens is a United States Army Reserve military installation in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: U.S. military installation in Middlesex and Worcester counties, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Devens Reserve Forces Training Area”, “Fort Devens CDP”, and “Fort Devens, Massachusetts”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School and Fort Devens Cemetery.
Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School
School
Photo: Michael A. White, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School is a public charter school in Devens, Massachusetts, United States that serves students in grades 7 to 12.
Fort Devens Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Devens is a United States Army Reserve military installation in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
Federal Medical Center, Devens
Prison
The Federal Medical Center, Devens is a United States federal prison in Massachusetts for male inmates requiring specialized or long-term medical or mental health care.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Devens and Ayer.
Devens
Town
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Devens is a regional enterprise zone and census-designated place in the towns of Ayer and Shirley and Harvard in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is the successor to Fort Devens, a military post that operated from 1917 to 1996.
Ayer
Village
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Ayer is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Originally part of Groton, it was incorporated February 14, 1871, and became a major commercial railroad junction. Ayer is situated 1½ miles northeast of Fort Devens.
Shirley
Photo: Bob Burkhardt, CC BY 3.0.
Shirley is a city in Merrimack Valley with a population of 7,000. The town was named for former Governor William Shirley, and was settled in 1720 and incorporated in 1775.
Fort Devens
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Town of Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Fort Devens” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Fort Devens”
- French: “Fort Devens”
- German: “Fort Devens”
- Japanese: “ディベンス駐屯地”
- Japanese: “フォート・デヴェンス”
- Japanese: “フォート・デヴェンズ”
- Japanese: “フォート・デベンス”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Camp Devens”
- Norwegian: “Camp Devens”
- Serbian: “Форт Девенс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Devens, Massachusetts”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Devens”
- Spanish: “Fort Devens”
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