 Winslow is a town in Kennebec County, incorporated on April 26, 1771.
At the confluence of the Kennebec and Sebasticook rivers, Winslow occupies the site of a former Indian village and was named for General John Winslow who participated in building Fort Halifax in 1754. Captain William Lithgow, first commander of the Fort, built his home here.
The blockhouse, part of the original fort, was built in 1754 and was the oldest in the United States, until destroyed during the flood of 1987. Fort Halifax was originally many blockhouses connected with fences. A reconstructed blockhouse, which incorporates many original timbers salvaged from the flood, stands on the fort's original site.
More recently Winslow has been the site of paper mills and is commercially and culturally part of the Waterville-Winslow area.
A restaurant, near the Fort, was filmed in 2003 during the production of the movie Empire Falls, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Maine author Richard Russo.
From Maine: An Encyclopedia (www.themaineencyclopedia.com)
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