The state’s oldest prison is now officially shuttered ... There’s that cap on housing at the former Fort Devens site and the utter waste of land and resources at the former Fernald State ...

AYER, Mass Nov.1 -- Demonstrators opposed to the war in Vietnam picketed outside the main gate of Fort Devens today. They included two Harvard students. A PFC from Fort Devens who joined the ...

In 1931, with it clear that area had shed its temporary status, it was commissioned as a permanent Army post and renamed Fort Devens. The base closed in 1996, with some land retained by the ...