Updated July 16
Lincolnville shipbuilding Half Seas Over: Interesting Research Related to Maritime Maine
Charles H. Lagerbom teaches AP U.S. History at Belfast Area High School and lives in Northport. He can be contacted at clagerbom@rsu71.org. He is author of Whaling in Maine, available through Historypress.com.
Share Lincolnville shoreline, once the scene of a thriving shipbuilding industry, looking up the bay toward the Ferry Terminal. Photo by Charles H. Lagerbom
To drive along Route 1 through Lincolnville Beach today, other than the state Ferry Terminal, some lobster boats and some seafood restaurants, one might easily assume the area never had much more of a link to Maine maritime history. But that is incorrect.