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This is the Marshall Point Lighthouse, located in Port Clyde, Maine. This thirty foot, Cylindrical shaped warning beaker was first constructed in 1832. When it was first built it was only twenty feet tall and was replaced with the one standing there today in 1857. The tower before it was lit by seven lard oil lamps with fourteen inch reflectors. The recent building who replaced the other tower is constructed out of white brick and built on a granite foundation. The lighthouse itself is off limits to civilians although the grounds around it is completely open to the public. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= http://www.essenceofmaine.com/&usg= These falls can be found around the town of Island Falls. Who has a population of 793 people living around the area. I couldn't find any information about the falls themselves...

In Portland, Maine there are plenty of appeals for people to come pouring in. Whether their reasons be to get away from everything, go have dinner on a cruise ship (DeMillo's Floating Restaurant) or maybe if they are sports fans, they would head over to watch the Portland Pirates or over to Hadlock field and see the Sea Dogs do their best. Even if neither of those appeal to anyone coming in there is still plenty to entertain. Whatever you're looking for Portland is the best to explore. Maybe you'll find it after all. http://www.tourismjunction.com/north-america/united-states/portland-maine.html



Old Orchard Beach is a popular summer spot for most in Maine. Along it's seven mile stretch of beach there are many attractions to draw in the people around. Old Orchard Beach Pier with its tragic history with the storms that take place at O.O.B. destroying the Pier over the years along with the Casino that once entertained the people with dances and plays. The casino was demolished in 1970. http://www.seenewengland.com/see_maine.html#The%20Mid%20Coast

http://www.seenewengland.com/see_maine.html#The%20Mid%20Coast Maine's outdoors brings in Plenty of vacationers from all around the United States. Famous for our wildlife, hunters, sight-seers and people who enjoy being outdoors find Maine a great place to be.

http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_image_pages/0354-0909-1213-2628.html Maine is famous for it's production of paper. In order to produce the vast amounts we do, we have many paper mills around Maine. But most recently the people have seen a closed sign out some of these mills. Like in Jay, Maine and the closure of the Wausau Paper Mill.

Lake Mooselookmeguntic is found in Franklin and Oxford County in Maine and is apart of the Androscoggin River's watershed. The Mooselookmeguntic lake receives water from many places. The Cupsuptic River flows into the Cupsuptic Lake which is connected to the northern part of Lake Mooselookmeguntic. Though these two lakes hadn't always been connected. The Upper Dam was put in between Lake Mooselookmeguntic and Upper Richardson Lake causing the Lake Mooselookmeguntic to raise fourteen feet. The Rangeley and Kennebago River also feed the Mooselookmeguntic lake through the northeastern side. With a maximum depth of 132 feet and a surface area of about 25.5 square miles Lake Mooselookmeguntic is the fourth largest lake in Maine.

Mount Katahdin is the highest mountain you can find in Maine. This humongous natural structure was given its name by the Penobscot Indians who found it in 1689. Katahdin meaning the "Greatest Mountain." It's located in a stretch called the Hundred-Mile Wilderness in the center of Baxter State Park. The area around the peak was protected by Governor Perciual Baxter starting in the 1930's. Mount Katahdin is the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.

You can find Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County. As off 200 the population in this town was 4,820 people. Bar Harbor is a port entry for Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and is home to the College of the Atlantic,Jackson Laboratory and Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. This famous, down eastern maine, summer colony has some of the largest parts of Acadia National Park which includes Cadillac Mountain; the highest point within 25 miles of the Eastern U.S. coastline.

Presque Isle is the largest city in the Aroostook County with a population of 9,511 people as of 2000. This city is the home to the University of Maine at Presque Isle, Northern Maine Community College, Northern Maine fairgrounds, the Aroostook Centre Mall and the Northern Maine Regional Airport.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl= Augusta is the capital of Maine. It has a population of 18,560 and as of the year 2000 it's held most of Maine's population. With that many people in one city Augusta is the third-smallest capital after Montpelier, Vermont and Pierre, South Dakota. Augusta is located on the Kennebec River and is the home of the University of Maine at Augusta.

http://www.skypic.com/images/5-6058.jpg Biddeford Pool is the largest tidal pool off the Saco Bay. Residing south of the Saco River on the coast of Maine and is approximately 6 miles southeast of downtown Biddeford. This was Maine's first recorded permanent settlement, which was called Winter Harbor, in the winter of 1616-1617. Richard Vines, a physician, took place in the colonization attempts by Sir. Ferdinando Gorges, Lord Proprietor of Maine during that time.

http://www.belgradelakesmaine.com/SiteImages/aerialbelgrade_rgb_feathured.jpg Belgrade is in Kennebec County with a population of 2,978 which doubles during the summer because people go to seasonal camps on the shores of the Great Pond, Long Pond and Messalonskee Lake. Belgrade also includes the villages of North Belgrade, Belgrade Depot and Belgrade Lakes also known as The Village.

Saco can be found in York County with a population of 16,822. Saco is home to Ferry Beach State Park, FuntownSplashtown USA, Thornton Academy as well as General Dynamics Armament Systems or formally known as Saco Defense. Saco gets lots of tourism during the summer by amusement parks like Ferry Beach State park and proximity to Old Orchard Beach. Early in 2007 a wind turbine was constructed near the water treatment plant at the foot of Front street. Another wind turbine was put up on top of York Hill in December 2007 to generate power of new train state of Amtrak's "Downeaster." http://www.harpersdevelopment.com/images/properties/saco4_full.jpg

http://www.biocrawler.com/w/images/9/9f/Bangor-Maine-Downtown.jpg Bangor is the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine and the major commercial and cultural center for the eastern and northern parts of Maine. As of 2008 Bangor is the htird-largest city in Maine. The population is 31,473 at the 2000 census.

Skowhegan is the county seat of Somerset County. The population was 8,824 at the 2000 census. Skowhegan is famous for it's annual Skowhegan State Fair, the oldest continuous state fair in the United States. The Skowhegan School of Art is an internationally known residency program for visual artists, even though it is technically located in the neighboring town of Madison.

Caribou is located in Aroostook County where the population was at 8,312 in the 2000 census.

http://www.scenicreflections.com/ithumbs/Portland%20Head%20Light,%20Cape%20Elizabeth,%20Maine.jpg Cape Elizabeth is a town that can be found in Cumberland County and is Maine's most affluent municipality as off the 2000 census data. At that time the population was at 9,068.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/gyoung09/maine%20scenes/sinclair.jpg Mexico, Maine can be found in Oxford County and with a population of 2,959 it is a small "mill town" for the papermaking industry.