Fort Foster (Washington County, Maine)

"The Rim" and Site of Fort Foster
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
View toward The Rim from the south
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Nearest city	East Machias, Maine
Coordinates	44°43′1″N 67°23′45″W / 44.71694°N 67.39583°W / 44.71694; -67.39583
Area	200 acres (81 ha)
Built	1775 (1775)
NRHP reference No.	73000155[1]
Added to NRHP	July 23, 1973

Fort Foster was a military site of the American Revolutionary War in what is now East Machias, Maine. Little more than a large earthworks, it was located on The Rim, a neck of land that commands the confluence of the Machias and East Machias Rivers. The earthworks were built in 1776, and attacked by British forces in the 1777 Battle of Machias. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]