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Originally Posted by Rattlesnake Gal
wrote:
Many locations make sense.
Fort Point obviously had a fort.
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As it turns out, there never was a fort at Fort Point :-|
Writing about the Quannippi Trail, Tadeusz Piotrowski wrote ...
"There was an Indian camping ground at Clay Point, near the present Camp Kabeyun .... A half mile south of the camp buildings is the so-called Fort Point. As early as 1722 the Provincial Assembly voted to build a fort on this site and cut a road from Dover to supply it. But the money to do this was never appropriated, and the first road to Alton was not built until the end of the French and Indian Wars ... in 1763." [1]
Gee -- money was never appropriated ... why does that sound familiar ;)
Anyway, I think not ever having a fort at Fort Point makes it even better!
[1]
The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England, edited by Tadeusz Piotrowski, 2002. pg 168.