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207. FIPS code. 23-74580. GNIS feature ID. 0582751. Stonington is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. It is located on the southern portion of the island of Deer Isle. The population was 1,056 at the 2020 census. [2] It includes the villages of Burnt Cove, Oceanville, Green Head, and Clam City.
It was founded in 1895 as "The Stonington Historical and Genealogical Society." The society established a museum at the Stonington Harbor Light in 1925 and since 1995 has run the Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer House, a U.S. National Historic Landmark. It also operates the R. W. Woolworth Library and Research Center. [1]
Deer Isle Thorofare Light, also known as Mark Island Light, [1] is a lighthouse on Penobscot Bay, Maine, about 1.8 nautical miles (3.3 km; 2.1 mi) west-southwest of Stonington. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was built in 1857.
October 16, 1991. The Stonington Opera House is a theatrical venue at the corner of Main and School Streets in the center of Stonington, Maine. Built in 1912, it is one of a small number of early 20th-century performance halls constructed in Maine. It is the current home of Opera House Arts, a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring and ...
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Maine provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Maine, where 18 public libraries were built from 18 grants (totaling $241,450) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1912. In addition, academic libraries were built at 2 institutions (totaling $70,000).
June 19, 1996 [2] The Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer House is a historic house museum in Stonington, Connecticut, built in 1852–54. The house is a transitional style between the Greek revival and the Victorian Italianate. [2] It was built for Nathaniel Brown Palmer (1799–1877), who was a seal hunter, a pioneering Antarctic explorer, and a major ...
Stonington is a town located in New London County, Connecticut. The municipal limits of the town include the borough of Stonington, the villages of Pawcatuck, Lords Point, and Wequetequock, and the eastern halves of the villages of Mystic and Old Mystic. Stonington is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population of the ...
There are 131 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including two National Historic Landmarks. Another three properties were once listed but have been removed. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 16, 2024.[2] Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.