The Army anticipated further conflict along the border, and purchased 25 acres of land atop Garrison Hill east of Houlton, Maine.
Workers completed military and state roads connecting Hancock Barracks with Bangor, Maine, open for travel after 1834.
[2] When the Aroostook War flared in 1839, three companies of the 1st Artillery Regiment manned Hancock Barracks under Major Reynold M. Kirby.
Maine legislature sent twelve companies of state militia, and Major Kirby helped to restrain them from starting a shooting war.
In 1839 Brigadier General Winfield Scott successfully negotiated a truce that minimized hostilities until Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled the boundary dispute in 1842.