Trailer village home
Item Information
- Title:
- Trailer village home
- Description:
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To provide housing for married ex-servicemen enrolling as students, the college purchased 61 trailers from the federal government in 1946. They were placed in rows in the field north of the present-day Thayer Music Conservatory. The trailer village, which had a common bathhouse rather than individual facilities in the units lasted about five years. Shown here is trailer No. 56, still owned by Frank Ponte.
- Name on Item:
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Frank and Lois Ponte ; Atlantic Union College
- Date:
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[ca. 1946–2000]
- Format:
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Photographs
- Location:
- Lancaster Historical Society
- Collection (local):
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Photo Archives of the Lancaster (MA) Historical Society
- Subjects:
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Mobile homes
Atlantic Union College
- Places:
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MassachusettsWorcester (county)Lancaster
- Extent:
- 1 photograph
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/73666k31f
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