The Loring Air Force Base led the population of the Aroostook County town of Limestone to quintuple between 1950 and 1960. After it closed in 1994, it saw an even bigger bust. The base made the town of around 1,500 people a half-hour north of Presque Isle a linchpin of American Cold War strategy.

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