Display at Old Fort Western, a onetime British colonial outpost at the head of navigation on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine's capital city

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The fortification, built in 1754 during the French and Indian War, is now a local historic site owned by the city. Its main building, the only original element of the fort to survive, was restored in 1920 and now depicts its original use as a trading post.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-11).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.