The property served as an Army base from 1917 to 1996, when it closed. On June 28, 2002, the MI Village was redesignated Prosser Village, in honor of Staff Sergeant Brian "Cody" Prosser, an Army intelligence analyst killed in Afghanistan on December 6, 2001.Today, Prosser Village sits in the center of a USAICoE academic complex that has continued to grow. Fort Devens was deactivated as an active installation on March 31, 1996. Customers would come in from the Nashoba and Merrimack valleys before the pandemic made a significant impact. Writing, gaming, miniature painting, and other dark procrastinations. Interestingly, I am a local, and the 39th had members who for the most part live in other parts of the country. Close . The bulk of the land was purchased by MassDevelopment for $17 million. However, she also noted that UMass Donahue highlighted the community’s wide array of industries, which could help provide resilience to more economic damage. Census-designated place in Massachusetts, United States, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School, "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Devens CDP, Massachusetts", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Devens,_Massachusetts&oldid=949905457, Census-designated places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Census-designated places in Worcester County, Massachusetts, Villages in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Villages in Worcester County, Massachusetts, Census-designated places in Massachusetts, Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from June 2007, All articles needing additional references, Articles needing additional references from October 2016, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. An elected committee, the Devens Committee. The Stuart then prudently backed up behind the hedgerow. This is my 12th post about my development and running of this scenario and the models that went into making it. Some residents are still looking to secede to become a town. The only thing I saw was a donation from a former lieutenant from the 1977 time frame. 001. One of them was Anne Ferguson, owner and founder of the Dragonfly Wellness Center on Jackson Road, which offered everything from yoga classes to grief counseling sessions. I wanted to honor the history and the struggle of the Allies in the days after the D-Day landing 75 years ago. However, Devens is the home of the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School. In its 99 years of service, more than 400 Army units have been stationed at Fort Devens.