Eastport

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Eastport, Maine

 

 

Eastport, city, Washington County, southeastern Maine, on Moose Island in Passamaquoddy Bay, near Campobello Island, New Brunswick, settled 1780, incorporated as a town 1798, as a city 1893. It is a port and the easternmost city in the United States (hence its name). The economy is based on textile manufacturing, tourism, and fishing and fish processing.

 

a working port

The bay has one of the greatest tidal ranges in the country; a nearby power project to harness the tides was left uncompleted by the federal government in the 1930s.

 

original working model for the Quoddy Dam project

Population 1,982 (1980); 1,965 (1990); 1,823 (1998 estimate).

Text from Microsoft Encarta

 

main street

 

fisherman stature created for a TV show

 

moose on main street

 

main street puffins

 

former bank
(now a police station)

 

older house in town
(note connecting back buildings - a regional style)

 

home available for rehabilitation

 

another in need of help

 

can cross the border to hear of Evangeline

 

or take a sailing cruise in the bay

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