ABOUT SEARSPORT MAINE:
Searsport is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,641 at the 2000 census. The town is known as "the home of the famous sea captains" and the "Antique Capital of Maine."
Searsport was settled in the 1670s and incorporated on February 13, 1845 from portions of Prospect and Belfast, Maine. Searsport was named after David Sears of Boston after he agreed to grant a large sum of money towards the town's founding. Searsport is noted for its rich maritime history. During the nineteenth century the port had 17 shipyards and built 200 ships, while supplying fully one-tenth of the nation's Merchant Marine deep water captains. The Penobscot Marine Museum faithfully recalls this heritage. In 1747, when fire destroyed the Province House in Boston, General Samuel Waldo advocated, unsuccessfully, that the capital of Massachusetts be moved to Searsport.
The Penobscot Marine Museum is Maine's oldest maritime museum and is designed to preserve and educate people regarding Maine's and Searsport, Maine's rich and unique maritime and shipbuilding history.
Designed as a unique 19 century seafaring village, the museum encompasses 13 historic and modern buildings, houses a modern exhibit gallery features annual shows and is home to a regionally important library and archives focused on maritime history and regional genealogy.
Sears Island, known as Wassumkeag or shining beach by the Indians, is located off the coast of Searsport, Maine in Waldo County at the top of Penobscot Bay.[1][2]
It is home to numerous species of birds, mammals, fish, amphibians and plant life. [3]
Named after David Sears of Boston after he agreed to grant a large sum of money towards founding of Searsport, Sears Island is currently state owned land, but is part of the town of Searsport.
The island has been a point of controversy for many years as the island is ideally located from the point of view of railroad, wood products and other development interests while others have expressed environmental and esthetic concerns about further industrializing this portion of the coast. [4]
The island is the largest undeveloped, uninhabited, causeway accessible, island on the eastern coast of the United States.[5]. It is 940 acres in area.
Searsport is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,641 at the 2000 census. The town is known as "the home of the famous sea captains" and the "Antique Capital of Maine."
Searsport was settled in the 1670s and incorporated on February 13, 1845 from portions of Prospect and Belfast, Maine. Searsport was named after David Sears of Boston after he agreed to grant a large sum of money towards the town's founding. Searsport is noted for its rich maritime history. During the nineteenth century the port had 17 shipyards and built 200 ships, while supplying fully one-tenth of the nation's Merchant Marine deep water captains. The Penobscot Marine Museum faithfully recalls this heritage. In 1747, when fire destroyed the Province House in Boston, General Samuel Waldo advocated, unsuccessfully, that the capital of Massachusetts be moved to Searsport.
The Penobscot Marine Museum is Maine's oldest maritime museum and is designed to preserve and educate people regarding Maine's and Searsport, Maine's rich and unique maritime and shipbuilding history.
Designed as a unique 19 century seafaring village, the museum encompasses 13 historic and modern buildings, houses a modern exhibit gallery features annual shows and is home to a regionally important library and archives focused on maritime history and regional genealogy.
Sears Island, known as Wassumkeag or shining beach by the Indians, is located off the coast of Searsport, Maine in Waldo County at the top of Penobscot Bay.[1][2]
It is home to numerous species of birds, mammals, fish, amphibians and plant life. [3]
Named after David Sears of Boston after he agreed to grant a large sum of money towards founding of Searsport, Sears Island is currently state owned land, but is part of the town of Searsport.
The island has been a point of controversy for many years as the island is ideally located from the point of view of railroad, wood products and other development interests while others have expressed environmental and esthetic concerns about further industrializing this portion of the coast. [4]
The island is the largest undeveloped, uninhabited, causeway accessible, island on the eastern coast of the United States.[5]. It is 940 acres in area.
