Westbrook Street Trailer Camp 1943 Maine
This information is taken from the Portland Maine, City Directory in 1943
Redbank Village in South Portland was in the process of being built and there were only a few streets which had apartments occupied by tenants. They included MacArthur Circle East, North and West and also Wainwright Circle West. The rest of the village was in the process of being built. I am very interested in the early tenants there and hope to do some interviews at some point. I am enclosing a list of the families which were living in the trailer park known as Westbrook Trailer Camp. This is where the plane crash of July 11th,1944 occurred, situated down behind McKenney’s gas station and Olde English Village. Both Redbank and The Westbrook Street Trailer Camp were built to house the thousands of military families who came from all over Maine to work in the shipyards for the War Effort.
1943
Trailer Park-276 Westbrook Street
Arthur M. West
Russell E. Parsons
Joseph A. Jarrett
Roy G. Noyes
Paul O. Gibson
E. R. Tupper
Vance R. Watson
Paul H. Faulkingham
Edward L. Palmer
Alphonse J. Arsenault
George W. Thibideau
Fred J. Wakem
Arthur R. Noyes
Arthur G. Milliken
Fred A. Tapley
Edmund G. Thompson
Guy I. Farrington
James R. Findlay
Granville E. Bickford
Joseph P. Zane
Edward Reynolds
Maurice M. Carr
Donald R. Veazie
Weldon F. Wyman
Earle K. Bowes
Charles O. Chatley
Douglas A. Robbins
Richard M. Holmes
John B. Pelletier
Lawrence W. Arnold
Armand K. Ferlat
Earl N. Dewitt
Fred A. Moore
Melvin S. Kimball
Charles E. Mills
Archie A. Cody
Warren S. Nesbit
Richard R. Noyes
Frank P. Ireland
John D. Scott
Durwood D. Glidden
Francis J. Goudreault
Elwin S. Barclay
Roy A. Freeman
Joseph P. Ciarrochi
Angus E. Hamm
Joseph Spearin
William S. Stuart
Linwood L. Kennedy
George H. Bowden
James A. Lambert
Joseph P. Gardiner
Cecil R. Brown
Robert O. Gould
Basil E. Perkins
Arthur O. Hersey
Carl E. Steele
Kenneth F. Crockett
Robert D. Smith
Alex J. Dumas
Howard A. Tisdale
Harold F. Jones
Roland P. Pelletier
Ernest W. White
Lowell M. Barter
Bickford R. Stevens
Morris R. Hall
Herbert R. Robbins
William F. Bathjer
Conrad W. Ekholm
Arthur R. Studer
Merton B. Crow
Earle F. Brown
Thomas E. Murray
Raymond E. Grant
Arthur E. Holt
Leonard St. Germaine
Arthur D. Fletcher
Blaire A. Lloyd
Arthur F. DeVoe
Donald W. Buchanan
Theodore C. Lindquist
Everett L. Morrison
Donald W. Multy
Rodney E. Saunders
These trailers, I am told were in clusters of 4 or 6 and spaces between the clusters. Since these are not alphabetical, I can only guess maybe the names were taken of families in order of how they were situated in the trailer park.

It will be very interesting to hear stories of Redbank in its earliest years.I lived on Macarthur Circle West from 1991-1997,it will be enjoyable for me as always to read your stories Sue.
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