Where in Maine
By Photograph by Kevein Shields
This diminutive outpost doesn't seem quite sturdy enough to stop rampaging French and Indians, does it? Luckily, this blockhouse was only one small part of a much larger fort, which was built in 1754 to protect the locals from just such an attack. The structure was sufficiently stout to survive for centuries -- it was the oldest of its kind in the nation -- until the great flood of April 1, 1987. That's when one of Maine's larger rivers broke its bounds and flushed the blockhouse and a lot of other stuff downstream.
