A  common Freudian slip is to make Fort Gorges more dreamlike by calling it Fort Gorgeous. After all, it’s the jewel of Portland Harbor.

Friends of Fort Gorges says on its website that it was built between 1858 and 1864 on Hog Island. It’s named for the Englishman Sir Ferdinando Gorges, a founder of the province of Maine in 1622.

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