- Title, side A
- Junior Girls Canteen, 1943-1946
- Text, side A
- During World War II, forty of Troy's teenage girls, their mothers, and volunteers operated a free canteen service for troops on the platform of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad station. The group began as a few neighborhood girls providing magazines to soldiers while trains were stopped. With support and donations from Miami County communities and six additional counties, thousands of food baskets and countless drinks were given to approximately 600,000 soldiers trackside. Books, games, cigarettes, and other sundries were made available to soldiers on their trips to and from Europe or the Pacific. The volunteers of the Junior Girls Canteen served every train and soldier that came through the station, whether it was in the dead of night or the coldest day of winter. Throughout World War II, many other canteens were created across the nation, including eleven other canteens in Ohio.
- Sponsors
- Troy Historical Society and The Ohio Historical Society
- Address
- Herrlinger Park, E West Street
Troy, OH 45373 - Location
- On E West Street, midway between S Crawford Street and Union Street
- Coordinates
- Latitude: 40.0327030, Longitude: -84.2018520.
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