Broad Cove, Maine Explained

Broad Cove is a prominent cove in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It is around 1.5miles long and around 1miles 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 300acres 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]}

Notes and References

1. Book: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey . Atlantic Local Coast Pilot . U.S. Government Printing Office . 1879 . 466.
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. Web site: Proprietors' Map of North Yarmouth, 1741 . 2022-07-07 . en.