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The possible industrial development of the island has been a point of controversy for many years. Writer E. B. White, a resident of nearby Brooklin, Maine, noted in a 1975 essay for the New Yorker that he had attended an evening forum about a Central Maine Power Company proposal to construct a nuclear power plant on Sears Island.
The park was developed as a dairy farm by the Carver family in 1859. At one point, the 186-acre property had a house, barn, two silos, and sixty head of cattle. After most of the buildings burned down in 1927, the descendants of Captain George A. Carver offered the land to the State of Maine as a park in 1952. [4] [5] It opened in 1963. [6]
Oct. 7—This story was originally published in September 2016. The black flies and mosquitoes are gone, along with summer vacationers. The air is crisp and fresh; and leaves are turning ...
Searsport is an incorporated town and deep water seaport located at the confluence of the Penobscot River estuary and the Penobscot Bay immediately northwest of Sears Island and Cape Jellison in Waldo County, Maine, United States. [2] The population was 2,649 at the 2020 census. [3] Searsport includes the village of North Searsport.
A dazzling time of year, fall foliage season marks the end of summer with a fiery display that transforms the Maine landscape. The spectacular show lasts just a few weeks. If you drag your feet ...
Oct. 1—Rain showers early this autumn have been knocking colorful leaves off the trees, which is a bummer. But that's the fall for you. With comfortably cool temperatures, stunning scenery and ...
The Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine, United States, is Maine's oldest maritime museum and is designed to preserve and educate people regarding Maine's and Searsport's rich and unique maritime and shipbuilding history. [1] It was founded in 1936, and is located at 5 Church Street in the center of Searsport. [2]
Examples of Fall Zone features include the Potomac River's Little Falls and the rapids in Richmond, Virginia, where the James River falls across a series of rapids down to its own tidal estuary. Before navigation improvements, such as locks, the fall line was generally the head of navigation on rivers due to their rapids or waterfalls, and the ...