Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Northern Early America Plymouth colonists were enjoying peaceful times for two reasons: one was an illness that had decimated the New England Indians from Rhode Island to Maine "the...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Northern Early America Pontiac was a powerful orator as well as warrior, and possessed a keen intelligence and skill as a strategist. He believed that the French would back up an Indian revolt to...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Northern Early America The Pequot War was fought in 1637. It involved the Pequot Indians and the settlers of the Pilgrim Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Pequot were a powerful tribe...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Northern Early America History The most important Revolutionary War site in Vermont Atop this rugged promontory along the Vermont shore of Lake Champlain, American Revolutionary War troops built a...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Northern Early America 1675-76, the most devastating war between the colonists and the Indians in New England. The war is named for King Philip, the son of Massasoit and chief of the Wampanoag. His...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Northern Early America Haverhill Deerfield Deerfield rebuilt after being nearly wiped out during King Philip's War. Sir William Johnson George Washington's Indian Fight (Seven Year War) Communities...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Northern Early America Fort Weed/Wadsworth East end of Bay Street, near Verrazano Bridge New York Phone: 718-354-4500 History Fort Weed, now part of Fort Wadsworth, was begun in 1841 on the Staten...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Northern Early America Location Old Fort Western is located at 16 Cony Street on the East bank of the historic Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine. Once in Augusta, follow the signs to Downtown, River...
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