Map of Historic Sites

Click here to open a map showing historic sites

Lincolnville is unique in having so many public and semi-public lands such as Camden Hills State Park, Coastal Mountains Land Trust parcels and four miles of shoreline. Because these lands haven’t been developed, signs of early days like cellar holes, stone walls, dams, bridge abutments, wells, lime kilns, pilings, quarries, roads, cemeteries—even single, stand-alone graves—are still relatively intact and undisturbed. These features are out there in the woods and along the shore, often familiar to hunters and hikers, but unknown to many of the rest of us. If we do come across them, we often don’t realize the significance of what we’re seeing. You may remember your grandfather or a neighbor talking about a certain old road or hearing about the family that lived in a house that’s only a cellar hole now. Time is running out to preserve these stories and, at the same time, somehow connect them to actual features on the ground.

Using GPS we’ve been putting some of these sites on this map. It’s a work in progress thanks to the efforts of Cindy Dunham, an avid hiker, who, several years ago, took our handheld Garmin GPS unit and began with the cellar holes. She'd come across several in her rambles, and those were the first waypoints she tagged. After that, it seemed every time she stopped in at our museum, there was someone there who knew of another one.

View this map like any Google map, zooming in and out, moving the “hand” icon around to see more of it. Clicking on a pointer will bring up a balloon with information about the location. Or click on a site in the left hand panel to find it on the map.

Please note that some historic sites are on private land. If not marked private, the site is state-owned or part of the Coastal Mountains Land Trust, and can be accessed by the public. Historic sites should not be disturbed in any way.

Let us know of other sites so we can go out, find them, and add them to this map.