Tag: Maine
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Counties in Maine that I have Visited
There are 16 Counties in Maine – “The Pine Tree State“ Also be sure to see my United States County Counting Page for the rest of the states. I have visited 13 Counties = 81.3% of Counties in Maine Counties visited are colored-in; counties still needing to be visited are blank. Map created using Mob…
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Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory
Prospect, Waldo Co., Maine (August 2009) The Penobscot Narrows bridge (map) did not exist the last time I drove along this stretch of U.S. Route 1 several years ago. I’d seen a brochure for it a couple of days earlier and decided to check it out. I set off from my base in Rockport destined…
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Atlantic Puffins in Maine
Muscongus Bay, Knox Co., Maine (August 2009) We left out of Port Clyde on an afternoon excursion to see an Atlantic Puffin colony. They live on nearby Eastern Egg Rock, a 7-acre island on the outer edge of Muscongus Bay (map). Puffins disappeared from the Eastern Coast of the United States for a long time.…
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Maine Lighthouse Museum
Rockland, Maine (August 2009) The Maine Lighthouse Museum occupies prime space along the waterfront in the City of Rockland, sharing a building with the Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce Information Center and the police department (map). It is the largest, most impressive collection of lighthouse and lifesaving paraphernalia that I have ever seen. It…
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Rockland Breakwater Light
Rockland Harbor, Maine (August 2009) A breakwater stretches along the mouth of Rockland Harbor providing refuge from storms and pounding surf. A lighthouse rests atop that long wall of rock assuring that no harm comes to mariners as they negotiate their way into the harbor. It’s easy to find the lighthouse. Visitors merely need to…
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Owls Head Light
Owls Head (Rockland Harbor), Maine (August 2009) Owls Head Light sits spectacularly on a scenic outcrop, easily accessible from nearby Rockland, Maine. Quite simply it involves an easy swing along the southern shore of Rockland Harbor to the Town of Owls Head. From there follow Lighthouse Road to its terminus at the large parking lot…
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Marshall Point Lighthouse
Port Clyde, Maine (August 2009) The Marshall Point Lighthouse appears as the second lighthouse featured in this video I took while traveling around Port Clyde and Muscongus Bay in southeastern Maine (map). This lighthouse can be visited on an easily accessible stretch of the mainland. It also features a museum open to the public during…
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Franklin Island Light
Muscongus Bay, Maine (August 2009) The Franklin Island light (map) is the first lighthouse featured in this video I took while traveling Muscongus Bay in southeastern Maine. There has been a lighthouse on this rock since 1807 — one of the earliest places along the Maine coastline to be lighted — although this current structure…
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Fort Point Lighthouse
Stockton Springs, Maine (August 2009) Fort Point seems to be an odd name for a lighthouse but it makes perfect since once you understand the history of the area. There was once an older structure along this point on Cape Jellison at the mouth of the Penobscot River. Literally there was a fort here, Fort…
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Fort Pownall
Stockton Springs, Maine (August 2009) It was 1759. The French and Indian War battled across North America’s eastern interior, and the British tried to protect their colonial possessions from invasion. The Governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Pownall, considered that a fort along the the western bank of the Penobscot River on Cape Jellison would be a…