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The Damariscotta River is a 19.0-mile-long (30.6 km) [1] tidal river in Lincoln County, Maine, that empties into the Atlantic Ocean. Damariscotta is an old Abenaki word for "river of many fishes". There are 2,500-year-old oyster shell middens (heaps) along the banks of the Damariscotta River, which occupies a drowned river valley leading to the ...
Damariscotta is situated on the Damariscotta River, a tidal estuary of the Gulf of Maine. Hunt Hill, at an elevation of 350 feet (108 m) above sea level , is the town's highest point. Demographics
The Damariscotta Shell Midden Historic District encompasses a significant collection of shell middens along the Damariscotta River in Lincoln County, Maine.It includes eleven middens in all, including the well-known Whaleback Shell Midden and the Glidden Midden, which is the largest shell midden in the northeastern United States.
Whaleback Shell Midden is a shell midden, or dump, consisting primarily of oyster shells located on the east side of the Damariscotta River in Maine, United States.It is preserved as a Maine state historic site and was included as part of the Damariscotta Oyster Shell Heaps listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
Location of Lincoln County in Maine. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Maine.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln County, Maine, United States.
Damariscotta's downtown is located on a neck of land that projects into the broad Damariscotta River, where Main Street (United States Route 1, the area's main thoroughfare has bypassed the downtown, and Main Street now is designated as United States Route 1B) crosses to the downtown area of Newcastle on the west side. Commercial buildings line ...
The driver of a dump truck learned the hard way that it's best not to tempt fate on a covered bridge originally built before the Civil War. The weight limit on the bridge was 3 tons (2,700 ...
The Damariscotta CDP occupies the western part of the town of Damariscotta in central Lincoln County. The CDP extends south to the town boundary with Bristol, and the western edge of the CDP is the center of the Damariscotta River, which forms the border with the town of Newcastle.