Estcourt Station, Maine

Estcourt Station (altitude: 204 meters, 4 neighbors ) is a hamlet in northern Aroostook County in the U.S. state of Maine. It is the northernmost point in Maine and thus also of New England.

Estcourt Station is located on the border between Maine and the Canadian province of Quebec, at the southern end of Lake Pohenegamook. It derives its name from the contiguous Canadian village Estcourt, in the municipality of Pohenegamook.

Estcourt Station consists of several houses, some of which were built before the international border was well defined by the Webster - Ashburton Treaty in the field. There is a grocery store and a small, now closed gas station. The place has no public road connection to the rest of the State of Maine; only a number of private roads that are maintained by Holzfällfirmen, extending from the settlement to the south, in the northern part of Maine.

Instead, the houses in Estcourt Station, the store and the gas station are served by the Rue Frontières; this is a road on the Canadian side of the border. Estcourt Station also uses belonging to Canada calling code 418, and is connected to the power supply by Hydro- Québec. Even the drinking water supply and other municipal services are provided by Pohenegamook on the northern side of the border.

The main line of the Canadian National Railway between Halifax and Montreal runs right.

There are border checkpoints on both sides of the border, but these are only open a few hours a day to cleared the trucks carrying the beaten in the woods of Maine timber to sawmills in Quebec.

Michel Jalbert incident

In October 2002 there was a U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell as " unfortunate" designated incident when Michel Jalbert, a resident Pohenegamooks, was imprisoned for three months in the United States after being off duty the customs post at the gas station in Estcourt station had tanked. Officials of the United States Border Patrol reported that Jalbert was a convicted felon and illegal weapons possession.