Broad Cove
Cove
Looking north from around the cove's midpoint in coastal Cumberland
Looking north from around the cove's midpoint in coastal Cumberland
Coordinates: 43°45′46″N 70°11′15″W / 43.76288587°N 70.187375206°W / 43.76288587; -70.187375206
CountryUnited States
StateMaine
CountyCumberland
TownsYarmouth and Cumberland Foreside
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)

Broad Cove is a prominent cove in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It is around 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and around 1 mile (1.6 km) wide at its mouth at inner Casco Bay.[1] 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.[2]

Later in the 17th century, Walter Gendall's farm incorporated the western end of the cove, at Duck Cove.[2][3][4]

Panoramic view of Broad Cove from the town landing at today's Broad Cove Reserve in Cumberland Foreside. The stacks of Wyman Power Station, on Cousins Island, are in view straight ahead

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1879). Atlantic Local Coast Pilot. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 466.
  2. 1 2 Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History, William Hutchinson Rowe (1937)
  3. ↑ Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Volume 2 (1902), p. 175
  4. ↑ "Proprietors' Map of North Yarmouth, 1741". Retrieved 2022-07-07.
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