Broad Cove, Maine
Broad Cove | |
|---|---|
Cove | |
 Looking southwest from Yarmouth's Ledge Cemetery to the northern tip of Broad Cove | |
| Coordinates: 43°45′46″N 70°11′15″W / 43.76288587°N 70.187375206°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maine |
| County | Cumberland |
| Towns | Yarmouth and Cumberland Foreside |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
Broad Cove is a prominent cove in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It is around 1.15 miles (1.85 km) across at its widest point, its confluence with the waters of inner Casco Bay. It sits between Sunset Point, at the southern end of Yarmouth, and the eastern edge of Cumberland Foreside. State Route 88 (formerly the Atlantic Highway) runs beside the cove (as Foreside Road south of the Yarmouth line and Lafayette Street beyond it).
History
In 1643, Englishman George Felt, who came to what was then North Yarmouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, from Charlestown, Boston, eleven years earlier, purchased 300 acres (120 ha) in Broad Cove from Welshman John Phillips.[1]
Later in the 17th century, Walter Gendall's farm incorporated the western end of the cove, at Duck Cove.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ a b Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History, William Hutchinson Rowe (1937)
- ^ Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Volume 2 (1902), p. 175
- ^ "Proprietors' Map of North Yarmouth, 1741". Retrieved 2022-07-07.