Old Fort Western is America's oldest surviving wooden fort - a reminder of the great contest between cultures that dominated New England life 250 years ago. The fort was built in 1754 by the Kennebec Proprietors, a Boston-based company seeking to settle the lands along the Kennebec River that had been granted to the Pilgrims more than a century earlier. The company and the Province of Massachusetts
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National Historic Landmark. Main house is the oldest surviving wooden fort building in New England (1754). Museum offices in the adjacent City Hall.
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Old Fort Western, built in 1754 and a National Historic Landmark, is America's oldest surviving wooden fort - a reminder of the great contest of cultures that dominated New England life 250 years ago. - Benedict Arnold used the Fort site as a staging point for the assault on Quebec in 1775 during the American Revolution.
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fort, store, house museum
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