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Rockland is the commercial center of the midcoast Maine region, with many historic inns, a coffee roaster, a food co-op, a community radio station WRFR-LP, the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA). Rockland was named a Coast Guard City in March 2008, in recognition of the long-standing and special relationship ...
In 2006 the National Audubon Society opened the Project Puffin Visitor Center in Rockland, Maine. The Center features a live video display of puffins and other seabirds from Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge. Exhibits also include natural history displays, the seabird conservation work done by the Audubon Society and its partners, and a film ...
Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light is a historic lighthouse complex at the end of the Rockland Breakwater in the harbor of Rockland, Maine.Replacing a light station at Jameson Point (the northern end of the breakwater), the light was established in 1902, about two years after completion of the breakwater.
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Oct. 14—ROCKLAND, Maine — A volunteer group is turning over the responsibility of maintaining and improving the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse to the city. The group, Friends of Rockland ...
Rockland was one of three U.S. cities to make the cut, alongside Washington D.C. and Big Sky, Montana. ... Virginia Oliver has been catching lobsters off the coast of Maine since age 7 and is now ...
The Project Puffin Visitor Center in Rockland provides information on the birds and their lives, and on the other conservation projects being undertaken by the National Audubon Society, which runs the center. [61] Views of the colony on Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge can be viewed via live cams during the breeding season. [62]
The Rockland Breakwater is a breakwater sheltering the harbor of Rockland, Maine.More than 4,000 feet (1,200 m) long, it was built in the 1890s by the United States Army Corps of Engineers out of locally quarried granite to improve the harbor's ability to shelter ships from coastal storms.