Fort William Henry is located in the village of New Harbor in the town of Bristol, Maine.

Fort William Henry is part of the Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site, which also includes the archaeological excavations of 17th and 18th century village buildings and a museum with excavated artifacts found on the site, including musket balls, coins, pottery and early hardware.

(Present-day Castine, Maine was an Acadian settlement, which marked the effective southern boundary of Acadia.

[7] Construction of the fort was ordered by Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips and cost £20,000 to build.

[9] The fort was attacked by a combined force of French and Native Americans in the Siege of Pemaquid (1696).

[10] During King George's War, Fort Frederick was attacked during the Northeast Coast Campaign (1745) by bands of Penobscot and Norridgewock.

During the War of 1812, the waters off Pemaquid Point saw the capture of HMS Boxer by the USS Enterprise on September 5, 1813.