Fort Knox, now Fort Knox State Park or Fort Knox State Historic Site, is located on the western bank of the Penobscot River in the town of Prospect, Maine...
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Thomaston, formerly known as Fort St. Georges, Fort Wharf, and Lincoln, is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,739 at the...
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Fort Knox may refer to: Fort Knox United States Army post in Kentucky Fort Knox, Kentucky, census-designated place Fort Knox (Maine), historic fort in...
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storage facility commonly called Fort Knox Fort Knox (Maine), a fort located on the Penobscot River in Prospect, Maine Knox Memorial Bridge, a bridge that...
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Philosophical Society in 1791. Two forts, Fort Knox in Kentucky and Fort Knox (Maine) were named after him. Knox Hall at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, home of the U...
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County, Maine, United States. The population was 698 at the 2020 census. The most prominent landmark in Prospect is Fort Knox, a large 19th-century fort. It...
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Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,944 at the 2020 census. Bucksport is across the Penobscot River estuary from Fort Knox and the Penobscot...
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Camden is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,232 at the 2020 census. The population of the town more than triples during...
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Friendship (formerly known as Meduncook) is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. It is 31 miles (49.9 km) southeast of Augusta. The population...
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original early modern meaning, the term referred to a vaulted chamber in a fort, which may have been used for storage, accommodation, or artillery which...
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Midcoast (redirect from Mid Coast Maine)
The Midcoast is a region of the U.S. state of Maine that includes the coastal counties of Waldo, Knox, Lincoln, and Sagadahoc; and a small part of Cumberland...
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rebuilding Fort George, occupying a former American fort, and building three new forts there. Like the Revolutionary War, the goal was to incorporate Maine into...
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Fort Monroe, Virginia. Period drawing of a Rodman gun on a casemate carriage. Photograph of a Rodman gun on a casemate carriage in Fort Knox, Maine....
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Matinicus Isle is an island plantation in Knox County, Maine, United States. The island is located within Penobscot Bay about 20 miles east of the mainland...
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Fort McClary is a former defensive fortification of the United States military located along the southern coast at Kittery Point, Maine at the mouth of...
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Penobscot River (category Rivers of Maine)
Penobscot River. List of rivers of Maine Waldo–Hancock Bridge Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory Fort Knox (Maine) Discharge for West Enfield U.S....
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Maine: Fort Knox; Kennebec River, Maine: Fort Popham; Portland Harbor, Maine: Fort Gorges, Fort Scammell, Fort Preble; Kittery Point, Maine: Fort McClary;...
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Retrieved 2022-04-25. Wade, p. 139 Wade, p. 241 Fort Scammel article at FortWiki.com Weaver, pp. 93–96 "Maine island with storied past set for new chapter"...
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Cushing is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,502 at the 2020 census. A favorite of artists for its unspoiled natural setting...
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Saint-Étienne de la Tour erected Fort Pentagouet to protect Castine. The coastal areas of eastern Maine first became the Province of Maine in a 1622 land patent...
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Waldo Patent (category Pre-statehood history of Maine)
of what are now Waldo, Penobscot and Lincoln counties and all of Knox County, Maine, along with the islands within three miles of its border. In 1759...
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Henry Thatcher (redirect from Henry Knox Thatcher)
Massachusetts (after 1820 in Maine) to Ebenezer Thatcher and his wife, Lucy (daughter of Major General Henry Knox and Lucy Flucker Knox). Appointed to the U.S...
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Fort Williams is a former United States Army fort in Cape Elizabeth, Maine which operated from 1872 to 1964. It was part of the Coast Defenses of Portland...
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Route 1A (US 1A) to US 1/SR 3. For the entire length, SR 174 is named Fort Knox Road. The entire route is in Prospect, Waldo County. SR 174 begins at...
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Fort McKinley is a former United States Army coastal defense fort on Great Diamond Island, Maine in Casco Bay, which operated from 1873 to 1947. It was...
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The Henry Knox Thatcher House is a historic house at Main and Elm Streets in Mercer, Maine. Built c. 1826, the building is a fine blend of late Federal...
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Seth Eastman (category People from Brunswick, Maine)
He had two tours at Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory; during the second, extended tour he was commanding officer of the fort. During these years, he...
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The history of the area comprising the U.S. state of Maine spans thousands of years, measured from the earliest human settlement, or approximately two...
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Fort Gorges is a former United States military fort built on Hog Island Ledge in Casco Bay, Maine, United States. Built from 1858 to 1864, no battles...
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Fort Sumner was a coastal defense fortification on Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine, United States. It was built in 1794 as part of the first system of...
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