Fort Sullivan / Fort Sherbrooke / Fort Sullivan

09/28/2021

Now on YouTube: recording of the 9/16/21 presentation by historian/author David Zimmerman on the middle years of Eastport's Fort Sullivan and the famous (and infamous) officers who once served there and likely were quartered in what is now known as "The Barracks" - going on to serve in the Seminole, Mexican and Civil Wars

Presentation with David Zimmerman, historian, author and professor at the UVIC in British Columbia, on Eastport's Fort Sullivan in antebellum and Civil War y...

09/06/2021

Two views of a diorama of Fort Sullivan

07/29/2021

Meanwhile, further South in Maine...

02/23/2021

From the Columbian Centinel of Boston, Massachusetts, issue of July 23, 1814. Citizens of Eastport were allowed to stay after the British captured Fort Sullivan and Moose Island on July 11, 1814, but they would be required to swear an oath of allegiance to King George III.

02/23/2021

News that war has been declared in 1814 between the United States and Great Britain reaches the Passamaquoddy region.

02/23/2021

Capture of Eastport on July 11, 1814, as reported in the Columbian Sentinel of Boston, Massachusetts