........Rolling in a RV - Wheelchair Traveling...... - Old Fort Western

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   Fort Western, built in 1754, is the oldest surviving wooden fort in the US. In truth Fort Western was more a fortified storehouse than an actual fort. Supplies were shipped up the Kennebec River from Boston to the fort four times a year. The river past the fort was not navigable by large ships so supplies were unloaded, stored at the fort and taken by flat bottom boats seventeen miles upriver to Fort Halifax, an outpost built during the French and Indian War. By 1775 James Howard had purchased the fort and built a store and living quarters for his family in the soldiers barracks. The Howards operated the store and lived in the fort for at least 50 years.    The barracks have been restored to look as they did at the t ...Read more...

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