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- The native Passamaquoddy Tribe has called this area home for at least 10,000 years. Some archeologists estimate the habitation at 20,000 years.[5] The first known European contact was the St. Croix colony founded by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1604. Near present-day Calais, the unsuccessful Saint Croix Island Acadia settlement predates the first successful English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, by three years. On June 25, 1604, Champlain and his men spent a long and severe winter on St. Croix Island with no fresh water and diminished supplies. Two-fifths of the men died of scurvy, and the colony moved across the Bay of Fundy to Port Royal in present-day Nova Scotia.[6]
Fishermen and traders visited the area in the 17th century. Moose Island was first settled in 1772 by James Cochrane of Newburyport, Massachusetts, who would be joined by other fishermen from Newburyport and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. On February 24, 1798, Eastport was incorporated as a town from Plantation Number 8 PS by the Massachusetts General Court, and named for being the easternmost port in the United States. Lubec, on the mainland, was set off and incorporated as a town on June 21, 1811.[7]
From 1807 to 1809, the town was a center of extensive two-way smuggling during the Embargo Act imposed by President Thomas Jefferson. In 1809, Fort Sullivan was erected atop a village hill, but it was captured by a British fleet under command of Sir Thomas Hardy on July 11, 1814, during the War of 1812 as part of the initiative to establish the colony of New Ireland. England claimed that Moose Island was on the British side of the international border which had been determined in 1783. Nevertheless, the town was returned to United States' control in 1818. The boundary between the U. S. and Canada in the area remained disputed until settled by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.[8] Eastport is the location most recently occupied by a foreign country in the contiguous United States.[9]
In 1833 Eastport was the second largest trading port in the country after New York City.[9] Farms produced hay and potatoes. Industries included a grain mill, box factory and carding mill. But the island's economy was primarily directed at the sea. With tides of about 25 feet (7.6 m), Eastport's spacious harbor remained ice-free year round. The first sardine factory was built here about 1875. The population grew with the emergence of the sardine fishery and related canning businesses, which studded the shoreline by the end of the 19th century. By 1886, the town contained 13 sardine factories, which operated day and night during the season, and produced approximately 5,000 cases per week. About 800 men, women and children worked in the plants.[10] Eastport would be incorporated as a city on March 18, 1893.[8] But the fishing industry would decline, and many people moved away. Indeed, the city went bankrupt in 1937. In 1976, the Groundhog Day Gale destroyed many structures along the waterfront. Today, catching fish remains the principal industry, although tourism has become important as well.[11]
Eastport is a port of entry. An international ferry crosses to Deer Island, New Brunswick, during the summer months. Each 4th of July, the city becomes a destination for thousands of celebrants. Navy ships have docked there during the 4th of July celebration for many years. Eastport celebrated its bicentennial in 1998. Each September, the city hosts the annual Maine Salmon Festival in the historic downtown district.[12]
Eastport and Passamaquoddy Bay, 1839, by William Henry Bartlett
Washington Street c. 1905
Water Street in 1906
Elm Street in 1909
Been there many times love it!!
My home, long may she wave.
I really need a video of Deep Cove road. I live in Oregon. Is there any chance you could post one?
Some explication of what we are seeing would have been nice. Thirteen minutes of gasping and shuffling, not so nice.
If you stay there you would be like the video person....walking around and all you see are seagulls and ravens....ravens as big as chickens....and deer walking around in town....
That used to be a big sardine processing town....and then ....
My great aunt worked at the Holmes cannery when I was a kid
@@woxyroxme That is a beautiful little town but very lonely and isolated....about 30 miles from Calais.....and many miles from a major highway....
Eastport is technically a city, not a town.
Looks like a Hollywood ghost town.
It is a beautiful town BUT no one is around.....
Plenty of seagulls.....I used to talk with the seagulls and raven and gave them ham treats.....There is a small police department....but that is that....and there is a coast guard pier overlooking Canada...
Summer is big, but most people leave once summer is over.
@Kieran Weston I know that, but I bet you lose about half the people in winter. I have a place in Somerset county that it’s reversed. It’s busy during ski and snowmobile season and dead in the summer. I about 20 minutes from Sugarloaf.
It is.....many big houses that have no one live in.....
Where are the people?
Must be fishing,,,, 😳
Day and night......weekdays or weekends are ALL the same.....no one is around.....it is VERY LONELY...
That would work for my invert personality....
Just not the winters
A ghost town
Disgusting ghost town