Military on Peaks Island
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Peaks Island Military Reservation was built as the principal defense of Portland Harbor.
800-900 soldiers were stationed on Peaks.
Many brought their families, causing overcrowding in the island's four room school.
Batteries                Forts                   Harbor Defense                  Casco Bay                    16 INCH GUN


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