Jamestown wasn’t the only American colony founded by the British is 1607. At the mouth of the Kennebec River in Maine another intrepid group of adventurers founded a colony in the wilderness and built a fort to protect themselves. Led by Captain George Popham, approximately 100 men made up the original settlement. Only one year later, the colony was abandoned and the survivors—Popham died in the winter—returned to England.
Fort St. George was lost until the 1990s, when archaeologist Jeffrey Brain of the Peabody Museum of Salem rediscovered it exactly where the colonists’ maps showed it. In 1994, Brain’s team confirmed the site and excavations continue to this day. This volume documents the history of the colony and of 10 years of exactions there. Written for the layman, it tells the story of a failed attempt to establish a colony in a harsh environment. Amply illustrated with photos, maps, and drawings, it is a fascinating history of an archaeological exploration that has yielded amazing results.
