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Belfast, ME

Belfast, Maine
City
Main St., Belfast, ME
Main St., Belfast, ME
Official seal of Belfast, Maine
Seal
Location of Belfast in Maine
Location of Belfast in Maine
Belfast, Maine is located in the US
Belfast, Maine
Belfast, Maine
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 44°25′33″N 69°0′42″W / 44.42583°N 69.01167°W / 44.42583; -69.01167Coordinates: 44°25′33″N 69°0′42″W / 44.42583°N 69.01167°W / 44.42583; -69.01167
Country  United States
State  Maine
County Waldo
Incorporated (town) June 29, 1773
Incorporated (city) August 17, 1850
Area
 • Total 38.37 sq mi (99.38 km2)
 • Land 34.04 sq mi (88.16 km2)
 • Water 4.33 sq mi (11.21 km2)
Elevation 85 ft (26 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 6,668
 • Estimate (2016) 6,647
 • Density 170/sq mi (67/km2)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code 04915
Area code(s) 207
FIPS code 23-03950
GNIS feature ID 0562011
Website www.cityofbelfast.org

Belfast is a city in Waldo County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 6,668. Located at the mouth of the Passagassawakeag River estuary on Penobscot Bay, Belfast is the county seat of Waldo County. The seaport has a wealth of antique architecture in several historic districts, and remains popular with tourists.

The area was once territory of the Penobscot tribe of Abenaki Indians, which each summer visited the seashore to hunt for fish, shellfish and seafowl. In 1630, it became part of the Muscongus Patent, which granted rights for English trading posts with the Indians, especially for the lucrative fur trade. About 1720, General Samuel Waldo of Boston bought the Muscongus Patent, which had evolved into outright ownership of the land, and was thereafter known as the Waldo Patent.

Waldo died in 1759, and his heirs would sell the plantation of Passagassawakeag (named after its river) to 35 Scots-Irish proprietors from Londonderry, New Hampshire. Renamed Belfast after Belfast, Northern Ireland, it was first settled in 1770, and incorporated as a town in 1773. The village was mostly abandoned during the Revolution while British forces occupied Bagaduce (now Castine). The British military burned Belfast in 1779, then held it for five days in September 1814 during the War of 1812.


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