Wiscasset, Maine
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Wiscasset is an 18th/19th century sea town in and the seat of Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The municipality is located in the state of Maine's Mid Coast region. The population was 3,732 as of the 2010 census. Wiscasset was first settled in 1663. The community was abandoned during the French and Indian Wars and the King Philip's War in 1675 and then resettled around 1730. Wiscasset is an Abenaki name, meaning "coming out from the harbor but you don't see where." Fort Edgecomb was built in 1808 on the opposite bank of the Sheepscot River to protect the town harbor during the Revolutionary War. The seaport became a center for shipbuilding, fishing and lumber. Wiscasset quickly became the busiest seaport north of Boston until the English embargo of 1807. Wiscasset's prosperity left behind fine early architecture, particularly in the Federal style (wikipedia.org)
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- Western: North America : North America
- American
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