Fort St. George (Popham Colony)
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Coordinates: 43°45′12″N 69°47′18″W / 43.7532°N 69.7884°W
Fort St. George, named for the patron saint of England, was built in 1607 by Popham Colony near Sabino Head, ten miles/15 kilometres south of what is now Bath, Maine, in the town of Phippsburg, Maine, United States. It was abandoned after a year of occupation and is now an archaeological site.[1][2]
John Hunt, a draughtsman present at the fort when it was built, drew a map showing[3] a star-shaped fort including ditches and ramparts, a storehouse, a chapel and more than fifteen structures. It contained nine guns that ranged in size from demi-culverin to falcon. As a result of espionage by the Spanish ambassador to London, Pedro de Zuniga, the map was passed to King Philip III of Spain, in 1608.[4] It was found in 1888 in a Spanish archive.[5] It is unique as the only plan of an initial English settlement in the Americas known to survive.
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- ^ ArchaeologyChannel.org - accessed 6 May 2007
- ^ Morrison, Peter H. (December 2002), Architecture of the Popham Colony, 1607-1608: An Archaeological Portrait of English Building Practice at the Moment of Settlement, The University of Maine (M.A. Thesis), http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/MorrisonPH2002.pdf, retrieved 2009-11-12
- ^ PophamColony.org - accessed 6 May 2007
- ^ AthenaPub.com - accessed 6 May 2007
- ^ SmithsonianMagazine.com - accessed 6 May 2007
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