
Betrayal at Popham
Two shiploads of hopeful colonists arrive on the rugged coast of present day Maine in late spring, 1607. They are determined to establish Popham Colony as a permanent English presence, just as other English settlers were doing farther south at the Jamestown settlement. By diligent effort, they construct a substantial fort, Fort St. George, to serve as their “base.”
What these intrepid advent...
Two shiploads of hopeful colonists arrive on the rugged coast of present day Maine in late spring, 1607. They are determined to establish Popham Colony as a permanent English presence, just as other English settlers were doing farther south at the Jamestown settlement. By diligent effort, they construct a substantial fort, Fort St. George, to serve as their “base.”
What these intrepid advent...