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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Mc Intire Garrison House
This house, built in the late 17th or early 18th century, is a fine example of vernacular log architecture of the period.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Victory Chimes (Schooner)
A cargo schooner built in Delaware in 1900, this ship now serves as part of Maine's windjammer fleet. The ship on Maine's State Quarter resembles her.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Isaac H. Evans (Schooner)
This 1886 schooner was built to serve as an oyster ship. It is now part of the Maine windjammer tourist fleet.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Olson House
Andrew Wyeth spent 30 summers at the house and is buried on the grounds. The house is depicted in many of his paintings including Christina's World.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: J. & E. Riggin (Schooner)
This 1920s schooner is one of the last generation of oyster schooners. Eventually motorized, it was converted back to sailing, and is now a Maine windjammer.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
Founded in 1783, organized in 1794, this is the last active Shaker community in the United States. A representative collection of Shaker implements and furniture is housed in the buildings.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Fort Halifax
Part of a 1750s colonial fort, the surviving element is the oldest blockhouse in the United States.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Tate House
This 1750s house was built for George Tate, a British Royal Navy agent in charge of procuring ship masts. It is the only pre-Revolutionary house in the Portland area that is open to the public.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Winslow Homer Studio
This remodeled barn served as the studio of artist Winslow Homer from 1884 until is death. It is now a property of the Portland Museum of Art, which seasonally offers tours.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Lady Pepperrell House
This magnificent High Georgian mansion was built in the early 1760s by the widow of Sir William Pepperrell, a leading businessman and politician of the era.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Roseway (Schooner)
Launched on November 24, 1925 in Essex, Massachusetts, this wooden gaff-rigged schooner was used primarily for competitive racing.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Cushnoc Archeological Site
Located near Fort Western, this site encompasses the remains of a 17th-century Plymouth Colony trading post.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Mercantile (Schooner)
This 1916 schooner was used in the coast trade until the 1940s. It has been restored and is now part of the Maine windjammer fleet.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Pemaquid Archeological Site
This site, located on the central coast of Maine, encompasses fortifications and colonial communities dating back before King William's War in the 1690s.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Lewis R. French (Schooner)
This 1871 schooner is the oldest known schooner built in Maine. Used mostly in the coasting cargo trade, it now serves the tourist trade as a windjammer.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Wickyup (Richard E. Byrd House)
This house was the summer home of pioneer aviator and explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd from 1937 until his death in 1957. Here he planned three Antarctic expeditions, wrote, and drafted what became the 1959 Antarctic Treaty. Wickyup was...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Edwin Arlington Robinson House
Home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.