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Biddeford Pool is the site of Maine's first recorded permanent settlement, then called Winter Harbor (not to be confused with present-day Winter Harbor, Maine). In the winter of 1616-1617, Richard Vines , a physician, resided here as part of the colonization efforts of Sir Ferdinando Gorges , lord proprietor of Maine.
Town hall c. 1885. The first European to settle at Biddeford was physician Richard Vines in the winter of 1616–1617 at Winter Harbor, as he called Biddeford Pool.This 1616 landing by a European antedates the Mayflower landing in Plymouth, Massachusetts, (located 100 miles to the south) by about four years, a fact overlooked in much of New England lore. [4]
Located in the summer colony of Biddeford Pool, the center operated from 1978 until closing in June 2023. [1] The building in which the center operated had previously been utilized as the Evans Hotel, Ocean View Hotel and as a young women's boarding school known as Marie Joseph Academy prior to being opened as the Marie Joseph Spiritual Center ...
Richard Vines (c. 1585 – 19 April 1651) was an English colonial explorer of northern New England, and an early administrator and deputy governor of the Province of Maine. Life [ edit ]
State Route 208 (SR 208) is a numbered state highway in Maine.Serving as the main north–south connector between Biddeford Pool northwest to downtown Biddeford, SR 208 is approximately seven miles (11 km) and two lanes wide.
The James Montgomery Flagg House is a historic house in the Biddeford Pool area of Biddeford, York County, Maine.It was built in 1910 as the summer home of James Montgomery Flagg, a New York-based artist and illustrator known for political cartoons and the iconic World War I recruiting poster depicting Uncle Sam.
Battery D, 8th Coast Artillery with four towed 155 mm guns was deployed to Fort Baldwin 1942-1944, [10] and a similar two-gun battery was deployed to Biddeford Pool Military Reservation 1942-1945. [38]
The first English colonists in Massachusetts Bay Colony landed with Richard Vines and spent the winter in Biddeford Pool near Cape Porpoise (after 1820 the State of Maine) in 1616. The Puritans , arrived at Plymouth in 1620.