Tenants harbor maine history

It includes the villages of Port Clyde and Tenants Harbor, with the latter being town's commercial center.

Port clyde, maine

A favorite with artists, writers and naturalists, St. George is home to the Brothers and Hay Ledge nature preserve, comprising four islands off Port Clyde. The town's population stands at 2, residents, according to the Census. The peninsula and its islands were noted for immense flocks of duck , geese and other waterfowl.

Although the region was part of the Waldo Patent , General Samuel Waldo complied with requests from Abenaki Indians not to settle immigrants at what was their prized hunting ground. Consequently, the peninsula remained unpopulated until after the close of the French and Indian Wars in The Revolutionary War further slowed development, but during the s, there was rapid settlement of the peninsula.

It was incorporated in as part of Cushing. On February 7, , the peninsula and its islands were set off and incorporated as St. George, taking its name from the river.