Eastport (Maine)

Washington County

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Eastport is located in Washington County in the U.S. state of Maine. The city is the easternmost city in the United States. The town is bordered by New Brunswick ( Canada).

Old Sow

Eastport is among other things known by the Old Sow, one located off the coast of the natural tidal whirlpool of about 75 meters in diameter, the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.

Easternmost point of the USA

The easternmost point of the USA, the station PD1179, located on the pier of the municipality at 44 ° 54'16 .27257 "North, 66 ° 59'0 .71006 " West.

Population

93.6 percent of the population is white, 0.4 percent African-American, 4.0 percent Native American and 0.9 percent Hispanic -American origin. The annual per capita income is $ 14,864. 17.2 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

History

Most of the approximately 1,600 inhabitants reside on the connected by a causeway to the mainland Moose Iceland, which has been inhabited since 1782 by settlers from Newburyport (Massachusetts ) and Portsmouth (New Hampshire). Already in 1798 the town was declared the settlement. In order to prevent the widespread smuggling of Canada, one built in 1807 Fort Sullivan, however, this fort surrendered on July 11, 1814 War of 1812 an English squadron under Sir Thomas Hardy. After the peace agreement Eastport fell back in 1818 to the United States, however, the disputed border line in the Passamaquoddy Bay was first initialed in Webster - Ashburton Treaty of 1842 -. On March 18, 1893 Eastport was declared a city.

Even today, agriculture and fishing, the most important industries of the town, which are important in the course of the 19th century sardine industry in which up to 800 people have found a livelihood in 13 processing plants, is today due to overfishing irrelevant. Tourism, which is funded in New Brunswick through the summer a ferry service to Deer Iceland, is of growing importance.