Inn and Cottages - Mid-June to Mid-October
146 State Route 32 New Harbor, Maine 04554 207-677-3727
When we did a road trip to Maine to see the Atlantic Puffins, we stayed at a charming historic inn in New Harbor. The Inn is walking distance from the Hardy Boat Cruise we enjoyed to visit the Puffins. The Inn has a main area as well as cabins to enjoy. The morning breakfast room faces the water so you can see the boats in the harbor as they enter and leave.
The main building of the Inn opened in 1925 in a renovated farmhouse. The building dates from 1850.
The Gosnold Arms Inn was the place to stay when visitors came up the water from Boston.
You can walk either direction when you leave the Inn to explore the sights by the water & local neighborhood.
We stayed in a charming cottage in the wood.
A short distance from the Gosnold Arms Inn you can visit places to hike, eat and history....
A few places include...
The Rachel Carson Salt Pond Preserve, where the panorama below was taken, was set aside by the Nature Conservancy in 1966.
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), which exposed the impact of pesticides on the natural world, marks the onset of public consciousness of the environmental crisis. At the time, Carson was already well known to the public as a marine biologist and noted author of Under the Sea Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951) and The Edge of the Sea (1955).
Some of her research was done on the shore of Maine's Muscongus Bay, at a tide pool near the southeastern tip of the Pemaquid Peninsula. The Rachel Carson Salt Pond Preserve, where the panorama below was taken, was set aside by the Nature Conservancy in 1966.
As you view the panorama, examine the environmental conditions that allow the tides to flush and replenish the water and life within the salt pond.
Pemaquid Craft Co-op & Pemaquid Art Gallery are a short drive from the Inn as well at the Fort William.
Fort William Henry is located in the village of New Harbor in the town of Bristol, Maine. The fort was, in its time, the largest in New England. The fort was originally built in 1692 but destroyed four years later by New France in the Siege of Pemaquid (1696). A reconstruction was built in 1908.
The Pemaquid Point Lighthouse was commissioned in 1827 by President John Quincy Adams and built that year. Because of poor workmanship (salt water was used in the mortar mix), the lighthouse began to crumble and was replaced in 1835. The second contract for the construction stipulated that only fresh water be used. Keeper Isaac Dunham oversaw the construction and wrote in a letter to the US Lighthouse Establishment that the agreement was upheld and the work went well.
The Lighthouse is reported to be haunted .
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