Fort Halifax

Fort Halifax is a former British outpost on the banks of the Sebasticook River, just above its mouth at the Kennebec River, in Winslow, Maine. 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. The fort guarded Wabanaki canoe routes that reached to the St. Lawrence and Penobscot Valleys via the Chaudière-Kennebec and Sebasticook-Souadabscook rivers. The blockhouse was declared a National Historic Landmark and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1968.

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Fort Halifax State Historic Site
state historic site in the United States, fort, United States,

National Register of Historic Places listed place page^@
National Register of Historic Places page^@
FortWiki page^@
Tripadvisor page^@

Location: 44.5397, -69.6299, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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Fort Halifax ⓘ
fort in Maine
Fort Western ⓘ
National historic Landmark in Augusta, Maine

1754-01-01T00:00:00Z

1754 Fort Western

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Fort Halifax, Winslow, ME

The last remaining one of the old blockhouses connected with Fort Halifax at Teconnet, now Winslow, Me., on a point of land between the rivers Kennebec and Sebasticook, built Sept. 3, 1754, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views

Fort Halifax, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views

Fort Halifax, U.S. Route 201, Winslow (Kennebec County, Maine)

WinslowME FortHalifax Interior

82 of 'The History of Augusta from the earliest settlement to the present time- with notices of the Plymouth Company, and settlements on the Kennebec; together with biographical sketches and genealogical register' (11245670315)

Fort Halifax Maine 3

Fort Halifax 1

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source

link	page		National Register of Historic Places listed place page^@		Wikidata
link	page		National Register of Historic Places page^@		Wikidata
link	page		FortWiki page^@		Wikidata
link	page		Tripadvisor page^@		Wikidata
site	fort		Fort Halifax	state historic site in the United States, fort	Wikidata
site	fort	1754	Fort Western	fort	Wikidata
commons	image		Fort Halifax, Winslow, ME		Commons
commons	image		The last remaining one of the old blockhouses connected with Fort Halifax at Teconnet, now Winslow, Me., on a point of land between the rivers Kennebec and Sebasticook, built Sept. 3, 1754, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views		Commons
commons	image		Fort Halifax, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views		Commons
commons	image		Fort Halifax, U.S. Route 201, Winslow (Kennebec County, Maine)		Commons
commons	image		Fort Halifax, U.S. Route 201, Winslow (Kennebec County, Maine)		Commons
commons	image		WinslowME FortHalifax Interior		Commons
commons	image		WinslowME FortHalifax Interior		Commons
commons	image		82 of 'The History of Augusta from the earliest settlement to the present time- with notices of the Plymouth Company, and settlements on the Kennebec; together with biographical sketches and genealogical register' (11245670315)		Commons
commons	image		Fort Halifax Maine 3		Commons
commons	image		Fort Halifax 1		Commons

Fort Halifax

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