COLONIAL PEMAQUID - MAINE

Map of the coast of Maine including Boothbay Harbor and the Pemaquid area.
The Colonial Pemaquid Area is North of Boothbay Harbor as you can see in this map. The English setup a fishing station at Pemaquid - near the point where Fort William Henry was later built - about 1610. The place was full of Wabanaki indians and fish. In those days only the Basques from Norther Spain had been consistently fishing for cod and herring in Georges Bank and the banks off Newfoundland, so these fish were huge and abundant. Today cod is almost totally wiped-out and locals fear the cod fishery may never be back. You can also see that Pemaquid Point is the closest mainland to Monhegan Island that had been used as an English fishing base even earlier.