Searsport may be a city in Waldo County, Maine, u. S.. The population was 2,641 at the 2000 census. Searsport includes the village of North Searsport. The city is thought as “the home of the renowned ocean captains” and also the “Antique Capital of Maine”. In keeping with the u. S. Bureau of the Census, the town contains a total area of 42.9 square miles (111.2 km²), of which, 28.6 sq. Miles (74.1 km²) of it’s land and one4.4 sq. Miles (37.2 km²) of it (33.42%) is water. Settled on Penobscot Bay, Searport is drained by Long Cove Brook and Mill Brook. It includes Sears Island, that is 940 acres (3.8 km2) in space.
Searsport was settled within the 1670s and incorporated on Gregorian calendar month thirteen, 1845 from parts of Prospect and capital. In 1747, once fireplace destroyed the Province House in capital of Massachusetts, General Samuel Waldo advocated, unsuccessfully, that the capital of Massachusetts be affected to Searsport, that was a part of the Waldo Patent he purchased concerning 1720. It had been named once David Sears of capital of Massachusetts once he united to grant an outsized add of cash towards the town’s commencement. Searsport is noted for its made maritime history. Throughout the 19th-century the port had seventeen shipyards and designed two hundred ships, while supplying fully one-tenth of the nation’s merchant marine trouble captains. The Penobscot aquarium dependably recollects this heritage.
Searsport is Maine’s second largest trouble port and is ideally situated from the purpose of read of railroad, wood merchandise and different development interests. Indeed, the city became the Penobscot Bay shipping terminus for the Northern American state haven Railroad, a line opened in 1905 by the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, that sent potatoes, timber and different merchandise from here by boat, and loaded coal to be used by its locomotives, while not having to organize rates with the American state Central Railroad.
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