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The blockhouse, the first structure built in what is the present-day city of Fort Kent, was named after then-governor of Maine Edward Kent. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Saint John River was a log driving route from upstream forests to downstream sawmills and paper mills until the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and trucks began transporting pulpwood .
Fort Kent stands on a slight rise overlooking the Saint John River, just west of the mouth of the Fish River. The Saint John is in this area part of the Canada–United States border, and the region on both sides of the river was until the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty territory disputed by both the United States and the United Kingdom, of which New Brunswick was then a colonial province.
The Fort Kent CDP is located at (47.254945, −68.585421), [3] along the Saint John River, which forms the northern border of the town as well as the Canada–United States border The northern terminus of U.S. Route 1 is near the center of the CDP, at the bridge across the Saint John River into Clair , New Brunswick.
The county seat is Houlton, [5] with offices in Caribou and Fort Kent. [ 6 ] Known in Maine as " The County ", [ 7 ] [ 8 ] it is the largest county in Maine by total area, the second- largest in the United States east of the Mississippi River by total area [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 7 ] (behind St. Louis County, Minnesota ), and the 31st-largest county in ...
The Saint John River (French: fleuve Saint-Jean; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: Wolastoq) is a 673-kilometre-long (418 mi) river flowing within the Dawnland region from headwaters in the Notre Dame Mountains near the Maine-Quebec border through western New Brunswick to the northwest shore of the Bay of Fundy.
Fort Kent (CDP), Maine, the main village in the town; Fort Kent (fort), a historic site in the town This page was last edited on 14 March 2022, at 02:57 (UTC). ...
The Fort Kent–Clair Border Crossing is at the Clair–Fort Kent Bridge that connects the town of Fort Kent, Maine, with Clair, New Brunswick, on the Canada–United States border. It marks the northern terminus of U.S. Route 1. This crossing first opened in 1905 with the construction of a footbridge that traversed the Saint John River. A ...
Fort Kent Mills is an unincorporated village in the town of Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The community is located on Maine State Route 11 and the Fish River, south of the village of Fort Kent. Fort Kent Mills has a post office, with ZIP code 04744, which opened on April 11, 1906. [2] [3]