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“Because of its location next to a deep, sheltered harbor and its access to timber and wealth from the fur trade, Professor Stone told me that the Pentagoet Peninsula became the single most contested piece of property (one and a half square miles) in the entire world. For the next two hundred years, the town would change hands seventeen times. “It was originally a pawn in the diplomatic game and it very quickly became a rook,” said Stone.”
― Harry Gratwick, The Forts of Maine: Silent Sentinels of the Pine Tree State