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Sebago Lake State Park is a public recreation area encompassing 1,342 acres (543 ha) on the north shore of Sebago Lake in the towns of Naples and Casco, Cumberland County, Maine. It opened in 1938 as one of Maine's original five state parks. [1] The mostly forested park is divided into east and west sections by the Songo River. [4]
October 2, 1992. The Robertson Quarry Galamander is a rare surviving example of a specialized stone-hauling vehicle. It is located in a small public park on the east side of Maine State Route 182 at its junction with Grist Mill Road in Franklin, Maine. It is the only known surviving intact example of the form, which was used widely in Maine's ...
Sebago Granite. A map of the Sebago Granite unit and the surrounding biotite granite, modified from the Naples Quadrangle USGS geologic map. [ 1] The Sebago Granite is a Carboniferous aged granite that appears in southern Maine. [ 2][ 3] The formation covers around 400 square kilometers in area, and intruded into the surrounding rock ...
The granite that makes up Halibut Point is estimated to be 440 million years old. It was quarried here as early as 1840. The scale of operations grew when the Babson Farm quarry was acquired by the Rockport Granite Company. Those operations ended with the collapse of the Cape Ann granite industry in 1929.
There are over 1,200 campsites in eight designated campgrounds along Highway 60 in the south end of the park, with almost 100 others in three other campgrounds across the northern and eastern edges. There is also the Whitefish Lake group campground with 18 sites of various sizes to accommodate groups of 20, 30, or 40 people.
Quoddy Head State Park is a public recreation area in Lubec, Maine, located on the easternmost point of land in the continental United States.On its 541 acres (219 ha), purchased by the state in 1962, the state park features 5 miles (8 km) of hiking trails, extensive forests, two bogs, diverse habitat for rare plants, and the striking, red-and-white striped lighthouse tower of West Quoddy Head ...
Here’s how quartz and granite measure up, considering Meacham’s parameters of durability, maintenance, appearance, and cost. While granite may come out on top in some categories, quartz ...
The Schoodic Peninsula is a peninsula in Down East Maine. It is located four miles (6 km) east of Bar Harbor, Maine, as the crow flies. The Schoodic Peninsula contains 2,266 acres (9 km 2), or approximately 5% of Acadia National Park. It includes the towns of Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor. The peninsula has a rocky granite shoreline containing ...