Thank you, Charmaine for sharing the "lost villages" message that was a result of the expansion of Fort Drum. The web sites will be added to my list. It may interest readers to know a personal family story related to what was then called Pine Camp and now Fort Drum. This story starts at River Bank where we lived. It was near the end of WW Two that my father as usual got into his car after breakfast to head for work at the Climax Mfg. Co. in Castorland. Within a mile he saw a person standing along side the road and he stopped. The man got in and simply said "Naumburg." My father tried to engage him in conversation but there was no response. In Naumburg my father let him out. Someone in the village saw the man and noticed the clothing he wore and called the police. When my father returned home that evening, he learned that his passenger was a prisoner of war with a big POW on the back of his shirt. My mother believed that he may have slept in our attic that night because she had heard unfamiliar sounds. Pine Camp did have a POW compound on its base. Perhaps others can add to the story or have related stories to share. Ken

Ken Thanks for the story it is from New Bremen but I am just across the river actually the line is some where between the rr tracks and the river, the two house behind your old home are in the Town of Croghan. The old CCC camp on 812 was used as a POW camp. St. Regis Paper hired the POW's to work in the woods. Maynard Monnat's camp was used as a horse barn when they cut on the Prentice Road. They also cut on the Texas Road below the Plank Hill. Probably other places that I don't know of . Jack Sweeney Historian Town of Croghan Ken and Lois Everard wrote: > Thank you, Charmaine for sharing the "lost villages" message that was a result of the expansion of Fort Drum. The web sites will be added to my list. > > It may interest readers to know a personal family story related to what was then called Pine Camp and now Fort Drum. This story starts at River Bank where we lived. It was near the end of WW Two that my father as usual got into his car after breakfast to head for work at the Climax Mfg. Co. in Castorland. Within a mile he saw a person standing along side the road and he stopped. The man got in and simply said "Naumburg." My father tried to engage him in conversation but there was no response. In Naumburg my father let him out. Someone in the village saw the man and noticed the clothing he wore and called the police. > > When my father returned home that evening, he learned that his passenger was a prisoner of war with a big POW on the back of his shirt. My mother believed that he may have slept in our attic that night because she had heard unfamiliar sounds. Pine Camp did have a POW compound on its base. > > Perhaps others can add to the story or have related stories to share. > > Ken > > ==== NYLEWIS Mailing List ==== > List Mom for Lewis County, NY is Jan Cortez. My email is cristian@netonecom.net. If you have any concerns, send me a note, otherwise enjoy the list and post often. It helps get your message out. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237