Fort Halifax (Maine)

Fort Halifax
Fort Halifax
Fort Halifax is located in Maine
Fort Halifax
Fort Halifax
Location in Maine
LocationOn U.S. 201 west of Winslow, Maine
Coordinates44°32′23″N 69°37′47″W / 44.5396°N 69.6297°W / 44.5396; -69.6297
Built1754-1755
NRHP reference No.68000015
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 24, 1968
Designated NHLOctober 18, 1968

Fort Halifax is a former British colonial outpost on the banks of the Sebasticook River, just above its mouth at the Kennebec River, in Winslow, Maine.[1] Originally built as a wooden palisaded fort in 1754, during the French and Indian War, only a single blockhouse survives. The oldest blockhouse in the United States, it is preserved as Fort Halifax State Historic Site, and is open to the public in the warmer months.[2] The fort guarded Wabanaki canoe routes that reached to the St. Lawrence and Penobscot Valleys via the Chaudière-Kennebec and Sebasticook-Souadabscook rivers.[3] The blockhouse was declared a National Historic Landmark and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1968.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Sprague's journal of Maine history". 1913.
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  3. ^ Zachary M. Bennett, “A Means of Removing Them Further From Us’: The Struggle for Waterpower on New England’s Eastern Frontier,” New England Quarterly 90, no. 4 (2017): 540–60.
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