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  2. Main Street Historic District (Rockland, Maine) - Wikipedia

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    January 4, 2012. The Main Street Historic District encompasses the historic commercial heart of Rockland, Maine. Located on several blocks of Main Street (United States Route 1), the district has a well-preserved collection of commercial architecture dating from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries, the period of the city's height as a ...

  3. Farnsworth Art Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, United States, is an art museum that specializes in American art. Its permanent collection includes works by such artists as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, Eastman Johnson, Fitz Henry Lane, Frank Benson, Childe Hassam, Will Barnet, and Maurice Prendergast, as well as a significant ...

  4. Farnsworth Homestead - Wikipedia

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    May 25, 1973. The Farnsworth Homestead is a historic house museum at 21 Elm Street in Rockland, Maine. Built in 1854 by William A. Farnsworth, it is an excellent late example of Greek Revival architecture, and was the home of Lucy Farnsworth, the major benefactor of the Farnsworth Art Museum, which owns the house and operates it as a museum ...

  5. This Maine town was named one of the best places to ... - AOL

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    Rockland was one of three U.S. cities to make the cut, alongside Washington D.C. and Big Sky, Montana. Why visit Rockland this summer Max Oliver, 78, tosses a lobster trap back into the sea in ...

  6. Rockland, Maine - Wikipedia

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    Website. rocklandmaine.gov. Rockland is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 6,936. [2][3] The city is a popular tourist destination. It is a departure point for the Maine State Ferry Service to the islands of Penobscot Bay: Vinalhaven, North Haven and Matinicus.

  7. Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light - Wikipedia

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    March 20, 1981. Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light is a historic lighthouse complex at the end of the Rockland Breakwater in the harbor of Rockland, Maine. Replacing a light station at Jameson Point (the northern end of the breakwater), the light was established in 1902, about two years after completion of the breakwater. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Now automated ...

  8. Knox County, Maine - Wikipedia

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    Knox County is a county located in the state of Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,607. [1] Its county seat is Rockland. [2] The county is named for Revolutionary War general and Secretary of War Henry Knox, [3] who lived in the county from 1795 until his death in 1806. The county was established on April 1, 1860 ...

  9. Maine Historical Society - Wikipedia

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    The Maine Historical Society is the official historical society of the U.S. state of Maine. It is located at 489 Congress Street in downtown Portland. The Society currently operates the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, a National Historic Landmark, Longfellow Garden, the Maine Historical Society Museum and Store, the Brown Research Library, as well ...