Fort William and Mary
Fort William and Mary was a colonial-era British fortress on the island of New Castle, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River in the Province of New Hampshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: fort
- Also known as: “Castle Fort”, “Fort Castle”, “Fort Constitution”, and “The Castle”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Portsmouth Harbor Light and New Castle Congregational Church.
Portsmouth Harbor Light
Lighthouse
New Castle Congregational Church
Church
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The New Castle Congregational Church is a congregation of the United Church of Christ, located at 65 Main Street in New Castle, New Hampshire. Its church, the only ecclesiastical building in the small community, was built in 1828 by a local master builder, based on the architectural patterns published by Asher Benjamin, and also based in part on the St. John's Church in nearby Portsmouth. New Castle Congregational Church is situated 1,900 feet west of Fort William and Mary.
Lady Pepperrell House
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Lady Pepperrell House is an American historic house in Kittery Point, Maine. It stands on State Route 103, opposite the First Congregational Church and Parsonage. Lady Pepperrell House is situated 4,100 feet northwest of Fort William and Mary.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newcastle and Kittery.
Newcastle
Village
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New Castle is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,000 at the 2020 census. It is the easternmost town in New Hampshire and the smallest by area, and it is the only town in the state located entirely on islands.
Kittery
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Kittery is a small town in Maine, directly across from the New Hampshire border, that features a number of outlet stores.
Portsmouth
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Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. At the 2020 census it had a population of 21,956. A historic seaport and popular summer tourist destination on the Piscataqua River bordering the state of Maine, Portsmouth was formerly the home of the Strategic Air Command's Pease Air Force Base, since converted to Portsmouth International Airport at Pease.
Fort William and Mary
- Categories: fort, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Town of New Castle, Rockingham, New Hampshire, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
43.07142° or 43° 4′ 17″ northLongitude
-70.70948° or 70° 42′ 34″ westOpen location code
87MF37CR+H6OpenStreetMap ID
way 47397605OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q1438485
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Fort William and Mary” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “威廉及玛丽堡”
- Chinese: “威廉及瑪麗堡”
- Chinese: “威廉與瑪麗堡”
- Dutch: “Fort William and Mary”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن ويليام و مارى”
- French: “Fort Constitution”
- French: “fort William and Mary”
- French: “Fort William and Mary”
- German: “Fort Constitution Historic Site”
- German: “Fort Constitution”
- Japanese: “ウィリアム・アンド・メアリー砦”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include U.S. Coast Guard - Station Portsmouth Harbor and NOAAS Ferdinand R. Hassler.
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