In the spring of 1944, a high fence and four guard towers transformed a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp on this site into New Hampshire's only World War II prisoner of war camp. Approximately 250 German and Austrian soldiers, most captured in North Africa and Normandy, lived at Camp Stark while working in the forest cutting pulpwood vital to wartime industry. The camp closed in the spring of 1946 when the prisoners of war were returned to their homeland. Several maintained the new friendships they had formed with local residents, and Germans and Americans attended a reunion here in 1986.