Keywords: Fort Halifax
Item 66963
Fort Halifax in disrepair, Winslow, ca. 1873
Contributed by: Winslow Historical Preservation Committee Date: circa 1873 Location: Winslow Media: Photographic print
Item 53016
Good Will Boys at Fort Halifax, Winslow, 1916
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1916 Location: Winslow Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The British capture and occupation of Eastport 1814-1818
The War of 1812 ended in December 1814, but Eastport continued to be under British control for another four years. Eastport was the last American territory occupied by the British from the War of 1812 to be returned to the United States. Except for the brief capture of two Aleutian Islands in Alaska by the Japanese in World War II, it was the last time since 2018 that United States soil was occupied by a foreign government.
Exhibit
Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps
The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.
Site Page
Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"… most likely helped design and build Fort Western, Fort Halifax, and the Pownalborough Courthouse. He also shingled the King's Chapel in Boston, did…"
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
