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Vaughan Woods & Historic Homestead is located south of downtown Hallowell on a property overlooking the Kennebec River, that is bounded on the north by Litchfield Road, the west by Interstate 95, the south by public lands containing regional schools, and the east by Greenville Street and small residential roads. The property covers nearly 200 ...
Hallowell (/ ˈ h ɔː l ə w ɛ l / HAW-lə-wel) is a city in Kennebec County, Maine, United States.The population was 2,570 at the 2020 census. [2] Popular with tourists, Hallowell is noted for its culture and old architecture.
Fort Western is a former British colonial outpost at the head of navigation on the Kennebec River at modern Augusta, Maine, United States. It was built in 1754 during the French and Indian War, and is now a National Historic Landmark and local historic site owned by the city. Its main building, the only original element of the fort to survive ...
The proprietors who owned the land, the Kennebec Proprietors, voted to build a courthouse that year. The building would be located on the grounds of Fort Shirley, which had been built in 1752 as a defense against Native American attacks.
Most of the land that makes up the farm was sold as a unit in 1786 by the Kennebec Proprietors, the area's first landowners. Unlike many surviving historic farms, this one did not have a long period of ownership by a single family until the 20th century, passing through thirteen owners in its history up to the start of the 21st century.
Oaklands Farm is a property of more than 100 acres (40 ha) which has been in the hands of the locally prominent Gardiner family (for whom the city is named) for centuries. The land was granted in the 18th century to Silvester Gardiner, one of the Kennebec Proprietors.
Augusta [a] is the capital city of the U.S. state of Maine.The city's population was 18,899 at the 2020 United States census, [5] making it the 12th-most populous city in Maine, and third-least populous state capital in the United States after Montpelier, Vermont, and Pierre, South Dakota.
Benjamin Hallowell (1699–1773): A Boston merchant and one of the Kennebec Proprietors, holders of land originally granted to the Plymouth Company by the British monarchy in the 1620s. One of the largest owners in the Plymouth Company, Hallowell owned 50,000-acres at Hallowell, Maine .