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Port Clyde, Maine

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Port Clyde was home to The Port Clyde Packing Co., manufacturer of Port Clyde Sardines. Employing around 200 people, it was the largest employer in the area for most of its existence. The factory was destroyed in a fire on September 26, 1970.
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In the 19th century, Port Clyde became a busy port featuring granite quarries, tide mills for sawing timber, and shipbuilding and fish canning businesses. By the 20th century, the area attracted artists and writers.
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and his wife purchased a home on Hupper Island just off the coast of Port Clyde in 2006. The house is a one-story structure built in the 1960s and reportedly purchased for $
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An overnight fire on September 27–28, 2023, destroyed the settlement's general store, the Maine Wyeth Art Gallery, a restaurant, and offices of the local boat line.
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The Wyeth family, with three generations of accomplished artists, has owned a summer home in Port Clyde ever since
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Port Clyde's harbor was originally known as Herring Gut. Marshall Point—site of the
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Port Clyde is the site of a home designed by Russell W. Porter as the town library.
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is the southernmost settlement on the St. George peninsula in central/coastal
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Kenneth Noland, Abstract Painter of Brilliantly Colored Shapes, Dies at 85
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long owned property and spent time in the area, as does N.C.'s grandson,
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President Bush Phones Chief Justice John Roberts at Hospital
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Port Clyde is the site of Fieldstone Castle, built by
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purchased "Eight Bells" in the early 1920s. His son
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Index


Marshall Point Light
Maine
town
St. George
Knox County, Maine
ZIP Code
The Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Orne Jewett
Marshall Point Lighthouse
Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump
N.C. Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth
Jamie Wyeth
Kenneth Noland
Paige Rense
Russell W. Porter
Greg Mort
Land's End Historic District
"Port Clyde ZIP Code"



Marshall Point Light history
Maine: A Guide to Unique Places
ISBN
0-7627-4053-1
The St. George Peninsula
ISBN

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