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Cobscook Bay State Park is a public recreation area occupying 888 acres (359 ha) on the western shore of Cobscook Bay in Washington County, Maine.The park offers a view of dramatically changing tides that on average can rise to 24 feet (7.3 m) high with some reaching as high as 28 feet (8.5 m).
Shackford Head State Park is a public recreation area on Moose Island in the city of Eastport, Washington County, Maine. The 87-acre (35 ha) state park occupies a peninsula that separates Cobscook Bay and Broad Cove. The land is named for John Shackford, an American Revolutionary War soldier who once owned the headlands. [3] The park is managed ...
Fort O'Brien is located on the western shore of the Machias River, a short way north of its mouth at Machias Bay and south of the village center of Machiasport. It is a roughly 2-acre (0.81 ha) parcel, with a small parking area and a grassy area near the riverbank where the fortifications originally stood.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Machias has a total area of 41.1 square miles (106.4 km 2), of which 40.4 square miles (104.7 km 2) is land and 0.66 square miles (1.7 km 2), or 1.58%, is water. [3] New York State Route 16 intersects New York State Route 242 at Machias village.
Machias / m ə ˈ tʃ aɪ. ə s / is a town in and the county seat of Washington County in Down East Maine, United States. [2] As of the 2020 census , the town population was 2,060. [ 3 ] It is home to the University of Maine at Machias and Machias Valley Airport , a small public airport owned by the town.
New York State Route 16 (NY 16) is a state highway in western New York, in the United States. It runs from the Pennsylvania state line, where it is one of the highest highways in the state in elevation, to downtown Buffalo. NY 16 is a major route through Erie County, despite the construction of the paralleling NY 400 freeway from East Aurora.
Machias is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the northeast part of the town of Machias, in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 471. [2] Prior to the 2010 census, the area was delineated as part of the Lime Lake-Machias CDP.
Cobscook Bay is located in Washington County in the state of Maine. It opens into Passamaquoddy Bay, within the Bay of Fundy. Cobscook Bay is immediately south of the island city of Eastport, the main island of which (Moose Island) straddles the two bays. In the 1930s, Cobscook Bay was part of the aborted Passamaquoddy Bay Tidal Power Project ...