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Famous New England Forts To Be Sold by Uncle Sam
A 1910 sale plan proposes auctioning historic New England forts and gun houses in Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut to state governments or private bidders. The piece notes longstanding disputes over ownership and the quirky fate of sites like Fort MclClary Fort Knox and Portsmouths gun house amid wartime use and later municipal limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Samuel
Wong
Atlantic
Gulf Sea
Congress
Maine
Fort Baldwin
Sabrice Head
Popham Beach
Fort Edgecomb
Fort Knox
Buecksport
Johscot River
Fort Maching
Machiesport
Cancadian Harbor
Fort McCrary
Portsnouth Harbor
Fort Constitution von Piscatagua River
Phinpsburg
Winnewell
Kennebec River
St Georges
Pokinstma Point
St George
Knox Conny
Kennebec Rover
Bath
New Hampshire
Portsmouth
Sazadere
Massachusetts
Crloncester Rune House
Salesbury Beach
Merimac River
Salisbury
Fort Standish
Plymouth Harbor
Tour Molea
Plymouth
Rhode
Rhode Taland—Fort Mansfield, Navarres Point
Watch Hill
Washington County
Connecticut
Lighthouse Point
East Haven
New Haven
Wae
Uncle Sam
Gloucester
Fort Nichols
William Nishely
Newburyport
Samuel Nery
Badgers Rocks
Black Rocks
Haven School
Portenoth
Ar Department
Sagamore Reservation
Sagamore Creek
Sagamore Ridge
Foss Corner
Rye
Fort Constitution
Newcastle
Ft. MccClary
Poul McClary
Cal Walam Pepnerrell
William
Conqueror Lensbury
Com.mand
Joseph Shapleigh
Kittery
Fort William
Pepperrell
McClary
Gal John Stark
New Slampshire Regiment
Bunker Il
Almast
Port Knox
Narmiod
Henry Knos
Washington
Fist
Ns Coven
Agiumer