Sunset Point (Yarmouth, Maine) Explained

Sunset Point is a promontory in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It is located 2.65miles south of Yarmouth Village and looks out into inner Casco Bay,^[1] marking the eastern side of Broad Cove.^[2] Sunset Road leads to the point itself. It begins at an intersection with Princes Point Road, Battery Point Lane and Nubbin Reach.

In the early 1880s, the adjacent (to the east) Princes Point began to develop as a summer colony. For several years it had become a favorite camping spot for the villagers and the inhabitants of the inland parts of the town who came here for clam bakes and picnics. The town road ended at the John Allen Drinkwater barn, and here a large gate opened into the pasture which included the two points.^[3]

The first property on Sunset Point was purchased in the 1800s by a man named John Burr Carruthers. The family has in their possession a lithograph of John Burr Carruthers and several other campers when the property was first purchased, and before it was developed. The first building on Sunset Point was a cottage built by John Burr Carruthers in 1888, and it still resides on the property.

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Notes and References

1. Book: Federal Register, Volume 49, Issues 55-59 . Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration . 1984 . 11206.
2. Book: Rhodora, Volume 110 . . 2008 . 97.
3. Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History, William Hutchinson Rowe (1937)
4. Web site: Briggs . Carol . Carruthers . Aurora Agnes Algie . 'Top Photograph; Rev. John Burr Carruthers' . BriggsParlin.net: Photographs of the Carruthers Family . 8 June 2024 . briggsparlin.net . Yarmouth, ME. The Rev. John Burr Carruthers was my great-great-grandfather. The research on BriggsParlin.net was done by Carol (Parlin) Briggs, who was the great-granddaughter of The Rev. John Burr Carruthers, and has been a research librarian for decades in the state of New York. . 8 June 2024.