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The Maine Coastal Island Registry (CIR) catalogs 3,166 of these coastal islands, along with some notable inland freshwater islands, such as Frye Island in Sebago Lake. According to the most recent CIR data, 1,846 islands are registered to private owners, while 204 islands, which contain four or more structures, are exempt from registration.
Kittery was incorporated in 1647, today distinguishing itself as "the oldest incorporated town in Maine." While this may be so, settlements upriver on the north side of the Piscataqua River in today's Eliot were established considerably earlier, owing to more favorable conditions for harborage, timber, and shipbuilding. This is the basis for ...
The Paul Family Farm is located at the southern corner of Depot Road and Goodwin Road (Maine State Route 101), in a rural area northeast of the Eliot village center.The main house is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding.
From left: Averee Martel, Susan Allen and Raymond Allen stand outside of Sue's Seafood on Old Post Road in Kittery, Maine on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2024. The longtime town business will close on Sept ...
Appledore Island, in Maine, is the largest of the Isles of Shoals, at 95 acres (38 ha). Formerly known as Hog Island, and prior to that as Farm Island, it is approximately 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from east to west, and 0.6 miles (1.0 km) from north to south. It was home to a large hotel, The Appledore House, during the 19th century.
Blue Hill Bay is a bay lying to the west of Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States. [1] Approximately 14 mi (23 km) long, its southern boundaries are set by Swan's Island and Placentia Island at its entrance; the town of Blue Hill lies at the far end. [1] Morgan Bay, Union River Bay, and Western Bay empty into it.
Punkintown (or Punkin Town [1]), once known as Emerytown, [2] Emery Town, [3] or Emeryville, [4] was a village situated at the corners of South Berwick, Eliot, and York, Maine from the 1800s through the early 1900s. At its peak, between seven and ten families gave the small town its population of somewhere between 30 and 40 people.
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