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The Bristol Parks and Recreation Department owns and operates the outbuildings surrounding the lighthouse as Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park. The keeper's house is now the Fishermen's Museum at Pemaquid, [9] which contains displays and artifacts of the lighthouse and local maritime history. Opened in 2008, the Learning Center is a community ...
The Beach is owned by the Town of Bristol in mid-coast Maine and, along with its "sister" park- the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse, are operated by the Bristol Parks Commission. [ 12 ] In 1958 there was a special town meeting held where voters of New Harbor approved a large purchase of what was once called "Big Beach."
The Portland Head Light, first lit in 1791, is the oldest light in the state and was the first US lighthouse completed after independence from Britain. [2] [3] The last lighthouse in the state, the second Whitlocks Mill Light, was first lit in 1910; it is also the most northerly light in the state and therefore on the US Atlantic Coast. [4]
Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site is a publicly owned historic property operated by the state of Maine near Pemaquid Beach in Bristol, Maine.The site includes the reconstructed Fort William Henry, archaeological remains of 17th- and 18th-century village buildings and fortifications, and a museum with artifacts found on the site including musket balls, coins, pottery, and early hardware.
Fort William Henry is located in the village of New Harbor in the town of Bristol, Maine.The fort was, in its time, the largest in New England. [2] The fort was originally built in 1692 but destroyed four years later by New France in the Siege of Pemaquid (1696).
Bristol, known from 1632 to 1765 as Pemaquid (/ ˈ p ɛ m ə k w ɪ d /; today a village within the town), is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,834 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ]
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The southwest tip of Muscongus Bay at the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse. Muscongus Bay is a bay on the coast of Maine, United States, between Penobscot Bay and John's Bay. . Muscongus was the name of an Abenaki village meaning "fishing place" [1] or "many [or large] rock