About Lubec, Maine
Settled in 1785 and incorporated in 1811, Lubec is the easternmost town in the continental United States. Located on a headland, with 97 miles of shoreline, (click here for tide charts), the town is approximately eleven miles east of the intersection of Routes 1 and 189.
Lubec’s surrounding terrain offers a rugged coastal setting and natural beauty, combined with solitude and tranquility rarely found on other more frequented parts of the Maine coast.
With activities, affordable services and amenities to welcome and satisfy entrepreneurs, vacationing singles, couples and families, Lubec is becoming the natural destination of choice for all who love the great outdoors.
The town’s inhabitants have celebrated their isolated existence and unique, unaffected character, community, and culture for over two hundred years. To learn more about Lubec's history, see the Maine Memory Network's Lubec section. Lubec Landmarks - Provides tours of the skinning shed of the McCurdy Smokehouse complex on Water Street. Lubec Historical Society - Has videos, genealogical records and an interactive Museum at the Old Columbian Store. To learn about those who were here before Europeans, visit the Waponahki Museum and Resource Center, located upstairs in the Sipayik Youth Center at 59 Passamaquoddy Road, Pleasant Point (between Perry and Eastport). Open by appointment only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1-4 PM. Call Brenda Moore-Mitchell or Viola Francis at 207-853-2600 for an appointment.
And with every intention of retaining that uniqueness, local businesses have begun to welcome and cater to a growing number of summer residents, new home-owners from ‘away’, and seasonal vacationers.
In recent years, Lubec has seen an increasing amount of focus on the creative arts, providing interested residents and visitors with educational and enjoyment opportunities not limited to:
- Music
- Photography
- Painting
- Fiber arts
Lubec and the surrounding area offers the self-initiating a variety of seasonal and year-round activities such as:
- Nature photography
- Cycling
- Walking and hiking*
- Lighthouse viewing - 5 in the immediate area
- Browsing artists’ studios and galleries
- Antiquing
- Garden touring
- Birding
- Whale, seal and puffin-watching
- Eco-touring and island cruising
- Fishing and hunting
- Recreational boating
- Leaf-peeping
- Snow-shoeing, cross-country skiing, ice-fishing and snow-mobiling
Whether planning your next vacation, considering retirement to a rural / coastal community, or relocating to start a new life / or a business, isn’t it time you came to Lubec?
* A snippet of information for hikers: One of the men who figured prominently in the making of the Appalachian Trail, (the footpath connecting the ridge of mountains stretching from Maine to Georgia), was born right here in Lubec. Lubec native Myron Avery 1899 - 1952