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Settlers arrived in Winslow in the early 1700s and built their homes around the protective Fort Halifax on the confluence of the Sebasticook and Kennebec Rivers which provided a major route to transport food, goods, and more settlers. The Winslow Fort Halifax Blockhouse, formerly the nation's oldest wooden structure of its type, was freshly rebuilt after the original was swept down the Kennebec River by raging flood waters on April 1, 1987. Benedict Arnold followed the Kennebec River north, stopping at Fort Halifax in Winslow on his ill-fated attempt to Invasion of Canada (1775)invade Canada in 1775. Thousands and thousands of Irish and French Canadians used the Old Canada Road (now a scenic byway) section of U.S. Route 201Route 201 during the 19th century to find seasonal or project employment and later to make the Kennebec Valley region their home. Modern Winslow developed around the Hollingsworth and Whitney paper mill located along the Kennebec River, which shut down in the late 1990s. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow%2C_Maine
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