PHIPPSBURG The zaniness and just plain fun that surrounds the annual George Popham Day celebration begins Friday just as the day is done — at dusk. Alex Popham King, a descendant of the man ...

The Popham colony and its Fort St. George vanished long ago, though some sleuthing by antiquarians and an old map of the fort discovered in Spanish archives pointed the way for archeologists from ...

The other group, led by George Popham, built Fort St. George at the mouth of the Kennebec River. They ran into a string of bad luck — Popham's death, the recall of the second in command, ...

Popham's rediscovery came about by two events a century apart. In 1888, a researcher for an American diplomat happened upon a map of Fort St. George in government archives in Madrid.

Historical Celebration at Fort Popham. Share full article. Aug. 31, 1862. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 31, 1862, Page 3 Buy Reprints.

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The town of Phippsburg, Maine, which includes the village of Popham Beach and an imposing Civil War fort, is celebrating its 200th anniversary. Ironically, this peninsula has a much longer history ...

PHIPPSBURG The zaniness and just plain fun that surrounds the annual George Popham Day celebration begins Friday just as the day is done — at dusk. Alex Popham King, a descendant of the man ...