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The town has several distinct areas, each developed during a phase of the town's history. The original town center was at Cape Porpoise, which today has a small village center, is both a summer colony and year-round community, and hosts a working fishing harbor. Inland from Cape Porpoise is a mix of forest and agricultural land, punctuated by a ...
Cape Porpoise is a small coastal village in the town of Kennebunkport, Maine, United States, and was the original English settlement of the town. It is located northeast of Dock Square and southwest of Goose Rocks Beach. The village occupies the mainland adjacent to Cape Porpoise Harbor. More than a dozen islands protect the deep natural harbor.
Goat Island Light is a lighthouse located off Cape Porpoise near Kennebunkport in southern Maine. [2] [3] [4] Goat Island Light was established in 1835 to guard the entrance to Cape Porpoise Harbor. The original station was upgraded in 1859 to the current brick tower with a fifth order Fresnel lens.
The Cape Fear Museum, founded in 1898, has been at 814 Market St. since 1970.
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Aerial photograph of Saco Bay. Saco Bay (/ ˈ s ɑː k oʊ / SAH-koh) is a small curved embayment of the Gulf of Maine on the Atlantic coast of Maine in the United States.. Saco Bay is approximately 10 mi (16 km) wide, running from the Fletcher Neck (the Biddeford Pool peninsula) and the mouth of the Saco River in York County north to the Scarborough River and Prouts Neck in Scarborough ...
Other events this week on Cape Cod Latte Art Showdown at Snowy Owl Coffee Roasters in Sandwich ... The event is free to attend, but if you’re looking to get your hands on a prize, it’s $15 to ...
Charles Webster Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899. He was born in Lodi, Illinois , [ 1 ] and his parents returned to Maine , raising him in the state where Charles' father was born.