S of East Machias of U.S. 1, East Machias, Maine. County/parish: Washington.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 23, 1973. NRIS 73000155.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
Fort Foster was a military site of the American Revolutionary War in what is now East Machias, Maine. Little more than a large earthworks, it was located on The Rim, a neck of land that commands the confluence of the Machias and East Machias Rivers. The earthworks were built in 1776, and attacked by British forces in the 1777 Battle of Machias. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/88687453