Shackford Head State Park, Moose Island

Name: Shackford Head State Park
Address: Moose Island, United States

#1 among attractions in Moose Island

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Shackford Head State Park is a public recreation area on Moose Island in the city of Eastport, Washington County, Maine. The 87-acre state park occupies a peninsula that separates Cobscook Bay and Broad Cove. The land is named for John Shackford, an American Revolutionary War soldier who once owned the headlands. The park is managed by the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. ()

Established: 1989 (35 years ago)Coordinates: 44°54'0"N, 67°1'0"W

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Shackford Head State Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: McCurdy Smokehouse, Boynton Street Historic District, Central Congregational Church, Tides Institute & Museum of Art.

3.2 miSE
Specialty museum, Maritime museum, Museum
McCurdy Smokehouse, Lubec
81 min walk • The McCurdy Smokehouse is a former industrial fish processing facility on the waterfront of Lubec, Maine. Operated between about 1906 and 1991, it is believed to be the last intact early 20th-century herring processing facility in the state. It is now owned by a local preservation group, hosts a museum and other facilities.
1.6 miE
Park
Boynton Street Historic District, Eastport
42 min walk • The Boynton Street Historic District encompasses three historic Federal-period houses between 13 and 26 Boynton Street in Eastport, Maine.
1.5 miE
Church
Central Congregational Church, Eastport
38 min walk • The Central Congregational Church is a historic church at 26 Middle Street in Eastport, Maine, USA. The meeting house was built in 1829, and is a remarkably sophisticated example of Federal style architecture for what was then a frontier community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
1.6 miE
44°54'15"N • 66°59'3"W
Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Eastport
42 min walk • Art museum, Museum, Art gallery
1.4 miE
City hall
Eastport City Hall, Eastport
35 min walk • The Eastport City Hall, originally built as the Boynton High School, is an historic municipal building at 78 High Street in Eastport, Maine. Built in 1847 to a design by Gridley James Fox Bryant, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
3.3 miSE
Bridge
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge, Lubec
85 min walk • The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Bridge is an international bridge which connects the community of Lubec, Maine in the United States with Campobello Island in the Canadian province of New Brunswick across the Lubec Narrows.
1.7 miE
Park
Eastport Historic District, Eastport
43 min walk • The Eastport Historic District encompasses the late 19th-century commercial center of the city of Eastport, Maine. Set on a five-block stretch of Water Street, this area was almost completely redeveloped after a major fire in 1886, and many of its buildings are the work of a single architect, Henry Black.
1.5 miE
Museum, Military museum, History museum
Fort Sullivan, Eastport
38 min walk • Fort Sullivan was a 19th-century military fortification in Eastport, Maine. It lay opposite New Brunswick, Canada, and served as an important coastal defense for the easternmost United States of America during the 19th century.
1.5 miE
44°54'7"N • 66°59'13"W
Crow Tracks Gallery, Eastport
38 min walk • Museum
1.6 miE
Library
Peavey Memorial Library, Eastport
40 min walk • Peavey Memorial Library is an historic public library in downtown Eastport, Maine, United States. It was built in 1893 in the Romanesque Revival style and named for Albert Peavey, an Eastport resident whose son, Frank Peavey, had moved to Minnesota, founded a major grain company, and invented the concrete grain elevator.
3.1 miSE
Greek Revival architecture
Jeremiah Fowler House, Lubec
80 min walk • The Jeremiah Fowler House is a historic house at 35 School Street in Lubec, Maine. Built about 1840, it is fine local example of Greek Revival architecture, owned during the 19th century by locally prominent businessmen.

Shackford Head State Park, Moose Island

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Shackford Head State Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)