Having crossed back into the US, we headed straight for an
impressive sight we’d spied from the road when we’d made our way up the Maine
Coast a month prior – the Fort Knox State Historic Site.
This is one seriously sturdy structure!
Constructed from 1844 as one of multiple defences designed
to stop a British attack, the Fort came into action garrisoning troops during
the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War, but never encountered a single
threat from the water.
Its massive granite-walled batteries and fortifications are
hard to miss from Highway 1 as you travel th Bucksport.
The kids got their run for the day, checking out the parade
grounds, batteries, the spooky two-step Alley and the grassy hillsides.
The ‘Hot Shot Furnace’, designed to maximise the destructive
power of cannon balls, was an interesting feature.
But I was a little disappointed...
Here I was thinking it was going to be the Fort Knox of gold
bullion legend and James Bond fame.
Oh, apparently that one’s in Kentucky. Doh!
