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The fort, located two miles (3 km) from popular Popham Beach State Park, is open to the public as Fort Popham State Historic Site. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Fort Popham Memorial on October 1, 1969, reference number 69000012.
Fort Baldwin was rearmed with a battery of four towed 155 mm guns on "Panama mounts" in World War II, operated by Battery D of the 8th Coast Artillery. [10] Some references list Forts Popham and Baldwin with the Harbor Defenses of the Kennebec due to their geographical separation from the Portland area and to be consistent with other fort ...
Fort Baldwin is a former coastal defense fortification near the mouth of the Kennebec River in Phippsburg, Maine, United States, preserved as the Fort Baldwin State Historic Site. [1] It was named after Jeduthan Baldwin, an engineer for the Continental Army during the American Revolution .
Fort Popham was built during the Civil War to guard the mouth of the Kennebec, on the site of a much smaller battery built in 1808. It became the control center for an underwater minefield in the 1890s. The more modern Fort Baldwin was built between 1905 and 1912 and was garrisoned in both World Wars.
Arnold Trail to Quebec. October 1, 1969 Along the Kennebec ... near Fort Popham on Fort Baldwin Rd. Popham Beach: 41: Purinton Family Farm ...
Fort Baldwin State Historic Site: Sagadahoc: Phippsburg: 10 4.0 Early 20th-century coastal defense fortification near the mouth of the Kennebec River: Fort Edgecomb State Historic Site: Lincoln: Edgecomb: 3 1.2 Two-story, octagonal wooden blockhouse on Davis Island Fort Halifax State Historic Site: Kennebec: Winslow: 0.75 0.30
Fort Condé. Fort Armstrong; Fort Bibb; Fort Bowyer; Fort Carney; Fort Claiborne; Fort Condé, open to the public; Fort Crawford; Fort Dale; Fort Decatur; Fort Easley; Fort Gaines; Fort Glass; Fort Hampton; Fort Harker; Fort Hull; Fort Jackson, open to the public; Fort Landrum; Fort Leslie; Fort Likens; Fort Madison; Fort McClellan; Fort ...
During the American Civil War, the Union army built Fort Popham in the area, directly on the Kennebec River at the mouth of Atkins Bay (about 500 meters east of the Popham Colony site). In 1905 the U.S. Army built Fort Baldwin on Sabino Head just west of the site, but parts of the site were used for transport and storage.