Maine Family Vacation - Beach Front Rentals

Take a Maine family vacation to Ogunquit, pronounced \"o-GUHN-kwit\", a town in York County, Maine, United States. With the motto \"Beautiful Place by the Sea,\" Ogunquit, a popular summer resort, it is also known as \"coastal lagoon\" to native Abenaki Indians. On this Maine family vacation, learn about shipbuilding, developed along the tidal Ogunquit River, constructing schooners and brigs and local shipwrights who built the \"Ogunquit dory”.

Ogunquit Is To Legit A Vacation To Quit

At what was then called ‘Fish Cove Stay’ in a Southern Maine vacation rental near the un-navigable Josias River, where fishing was a major livelihood. Ogunquit was the first village within Wells, which was settled in 1641 and the first sawmill was established in 1686. Fishermen hauled their boats ashore each night as there was no headland or breakwater cove protection from Atlantic storms.

On your Southern Maine vacation, you will see how they have resolved to create a safe anchorage, they have dug a channel across land to connect Fish Cove with the Josias River. With the trench completed in roared the ocean, its erosion helping to further widen the passage. The resulting tidewater basin would be called Perkins Cove, across which spans a manually-operated draw footbridge, which can be seen to this day on a Maine family vacation.

The Southern Maine vacation rentals allow you to visit the 3 and a half mile beach of pale sand and dunes forming a barrier peninsula, that was connected to the mainland in 1888 by bridge across the Ogunquit River, the weather-beaten old village was discovered by artists. After 1898, when the popular Ogunquit Art Colony was established, you will see artists and fishermen plying their respective trades around the Cove on this Maine family vacation rental.