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Main Street, Castine
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Castine Looks To Overcome High Housing Costs
The highest housing costs in
Maine
may be found in Castine, Town Manager Joseph Slocum said during a
recent interview.
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Castine Home To Maine Maritime
Academy
It is appropriate
that Castine is home to Maine Maritime Academy, an institution that
is civilian but carries with it a military discipline.
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Castine’s
Main Street
prize
Julie VanderGraaf conferred briefly with a head waitress about a
menu item at the Pentagoet Inn, then ushered the visitor to the
lounge.
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Eaton Exceeds Teachers’ Expectations
Ken Eaton has always known what he wanted, even if people around him
did not. As a schoolboy in Castine years ago, Eaton recently
confided, teachers were certain that his professional life would
follow the same dismal route his academic one had.
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Society Dedicated to the Preservation of Castine’s
History
Jim
Day took time away from gardening chores Thursday to show off the
Castine Historical Society’s
Abbott
School, which houses its headquarters and museum. The
two-and-a-half-story brilliantly white building is one of four
landmarks at the corners of Castine’s Common—the others are the
Unitarian Church, Adams School, and Witherle Memorial Library.
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| Written and photographed
by John Hubbard. He can be contacted at 667-2576. |
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Castine Facts
Acreage: 5,050
Population, 2000: 1,343
Population, 1990: 1,191
Population 19 years old and younger, 2000: 304
Median age: 23.8
School: Adams School
College: Maine Maritime Academy
Library: Witherle Memorial Library
Municipal building: Emerson Hall
Churches: Episcopal 1, Roman Catholic 1,
Unitarian 1,Trinitarian
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They
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“There are a lot of nice
 people
in the town and no small number of historic buildings to keep
me in work.”
— Raymond Nickerson
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Milestones |
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1612: Castine explored and mapped by Samuel de Champlain.
1629: Isaac Allerton builds a trading post to be contested by
English, French and Indians for many years.
1667: Baron Jean Vincent d’Abbadie St. Castin arrives, marries
a Tarratine princess, and opens a trading post.
1763: By Treaty of Paris, France cedes claim to area to
English.
1779: British Gen. Francis McLean builds
Fort George, holds off American Com. Dudley Saltonstall’s 18 vessels of
which 14 were scuttled in the Penobscot River.
1796: Castine organized into township and became county seat.
1812 and 1815: British invasion attempts fail.
1838: Ellsworth voted county seat
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Area
Restaurants,
Clubs & Inns |
Castine Golf Club
Battle Avenue • 326-8844
Castine Harbor Lodge
Perkins Street • 326-4335
Castine Inn
Main Street • 326-4365
Dennett's Wharf Lobster
Pound & Oyster Bar
Sea Street • 326-9045
Manor Inn
Battle Avenue • 326-4861
Pentagoet Inn
Main Street • 326-8616
Reef Restaurant
Sea Street • 326-4040
Water Street Restaurant
Water Street • 326-2008
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