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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]
Penobscot Marine Museum: Searsport: Waldo: Mid Coast: Maritime: 19th-century village buildings with displays of boats, fishing artifacts, 19th-century Victorian period house, ship models, scrimshaw, marine art Penobscot Nation Museum: Old Town: Penobscot: Maine Highlands: Native American
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.
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The bay was the site of a humiliating American defeat during the Revolutionary War.In 1779 a Continental Navy flotilla consisting of 19 warships and 25 support vessels was dispatched on July 24 to recapture the mid-coast of Maine from the British who had captured part of the territory and constructed fortifications near the bay, naming the newly captured territory New Ireland.
Following his career in journalism, Colcord focused his life on maritime history as a founder of the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine, and the journal, The American Neptune. He was elected in 1936 as Clerk of the Corporation and Secretary to the Board of the museum. [2] [9] [10]
Breakfast in camp, Penobscot, September 1885. Penobscot is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The Bagaduce River flows through the town. [2] The population was 1,136 at the 2020 census. [3]