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Civil War fort protects entrance to Down East Maine river

In far Down East Maine, well-preserved earthworks recall when people feared that a Confederate sea raider — perhaps the notorious CSS Alabama or CSS Florida — might steam up the muddily mercurial Machias River and attack Machias, a lumber port and the Washington County shiretown. Constructed in Machiasport (the town separating Machias from the open […]