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Phippsburg

Phippsburg, Maine
Town
Fort Popham
Nickname(s): The Burg
Phippsburg, Maine is located in Maine
Phippsburg, Maine
Phippsburg, Maine
Location within the state of Maine
Coordinates: 43°47′35″N 69°49′4″W / 43.79306°N 69.81778°W / 43.79306; -69.81778
Country United States
State Maine
County Sagadahoc
Incorporated 1814
Area
 • Total 71.20 sq mi (184.41 km2)
 • Land 28.58 sq mi (74.02 km2)
 • Water 42.62 sq mi (110.39 km2)
Elevation 128 ft (39 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 2,216
 • Estimate (2012) 2,226
 • Density 77.5/sq mi (29.9/km2)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes 04562, 04567
Area code(s) 207
FIPS code 23-58515
GNIS feature ID 0582675

Phippsburg is a town in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States, on the west side of the mouth of the Kennebec River. The population was 2,216 at the 2010 census. It is within the PortlandSouth PortlandBiddeford, Maine, metropolitan statistical area. A tourist destination, Phippsburg is home to Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, Fort Popham State Historic Site; it is also home to Fort Baldwin which overlooks Fort Popham, and Popham Beach State Park, as well as Pond Island National Wildlife Refuge. The town includes part of Winnegance.

Site of the Popham Colony, Phippsburg was — between 1607 and 1608 — the first known English settlement attempt in New England. During its brief existence, colonists built Virginia of Sagadahoc, the first ship in Maine's long history of shipbuilding.

The next British settlement at the mouth of the Kennebec River began in 1653; Thomas Atkins, a fisherman, purchased from the sachem Mowhotiwormet, commonly called Chief Robinhood, the southern end of Phippsburg (with the exception of Popham). Atkins Bay bears his name. The population gradually increased until King Philip's War, when Indians in August 1676 attacked the eastern side of the Kennebec River, and scalping the colonists, or else carrying them into captivity. Dwellings were burned and stocks of cattle killed. The entire area was abandoned.


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