York Harbor, Maine
| York Harbor, Maine | |
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| Census-designated place | |
York Street and the Lancaster Building, c. 1922
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 York Harbor
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| Coordinates: 43°8′33″N 70°38′50″W / 43.14250°N 70.64722°WCoordinates: 43°8′33″N 70°38′50″W / 43.14250°N 70.64722°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maine |
| County | York |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3.5 sq mi (9.1 km2) |
| • Land | 3.2 sq mi (8.3 km2) |
| • Water | 0.3 sq mi (0.7 km2) |
| Elevation | 46 ft (14 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 3,033 |
| • Density | 946/sq mi (365.4/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP codes | 03910-03911 |
| Area code(s) | 207 |
| FIPS code | 23-88160 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0578771 |
York Harbor is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of York in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,033 at the 2010 census. York Harbor is a distinguished former Gilded Age summer colony noted for its resort architecture. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.
York was a prosperous seaport in the 18th century. Its harbor, then known as Lower Town, was lined with wharves and warehouses to which upriver settlers brought their goods for trade and shipping. The tongue of land at the mouth of the York River was called Gallows Point, where criminals at Old York Gaol in York Village were hanged. At high tide the tongue became an island, from which a ferry licensed in 1652 crossed to Seabury.
During the American Revolution, fishermen and their families abandoned the Isles of Shoals off the coast and floated their homes to the Lower Town waterfront, where they were rebuilt. They hauled their boats at Lobster Cove and dried their catch on fish flakes, after which the tongue would be named Stage Neck. In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson's embargo crippled local mercantile trade, and by the Civil War, Stage Neck had deteriorated into a ramshackle slum.
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