Belfast, Maine Belfast, Maine Main St., Belfast, ME Main St., Belfast, ME Official seal of Belfast, Maine Location of Belfast in Maine Location of Belfast in Maine Belfast, Maine is positioned in the US Belfast, Maine - Belfast, Maine State Maine Belfast is a town/city in Waldo County, Maine, in the United States.

Located at the mouth of the Passagassawakeag River estuary on Penobscot Bay, Belfast is the governmental center of county of Waldo County. The seaport has a richness of antique architecture in a several historic districts, and remains prominent with tourists.

Renamed Belfast after Belfast, Northern Ireland, it was first settled in 1770, and incorporated as a town in 1773.

The village was mostly abandoned amid the Revolution while British forces occupied Bagaduce (now Castine). The British military burned Belfast in 1779, then held it for five days in September 1814 amid the War of 1812. Belfast was incorporated on August 17, 1850 as a city, the 8th in Maine, adopting its charter on April 3, 1852. It advanced into a ship assembly center, producing hundreds of three, four and five masted schooners.

The Belfast rail yard in 1875; MEC-built station home c - 1880.

A county wide connection to the chief line of the Maine Central Railroad at Burnham 33-miles inland from Belfast was established by the largely city-owned Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad with its opening in 1871.

Regular passenger service ended in 1960, and all operations in Belfast of any kind ceased in 2005, when the chief yard was torn up. In 2011 the grounds of the former B&ML chief yard and adjoining Stinson Seafood factory became the site of the Front Street Shipyard.

After World War II, however, the Belfast economy was driven by its poultry industry, including 2 of the state's larger processors, Maplewood and Penobscot Poultry.

In the early 1990s, credit-card enormous MBNA established two facilities in Belfast, one considerably larger than the other.

The business was instrumental in establishing the Hutchinson Center of the University of Maine, an outpost of the University of Maine System, less than a mile from the chief MBNA campus.

Jobs provided by MBNA, which was recently acquired by the Bank of America, helped increase Belfast's populace decidedly .

In 1996, ship assembly was re-established on the Belfast waterfront with the opening of French & Webb, Inc., classic wooden yacht builders and restorers.

Following in their footsteps, Front Street Shipyard opened a primary boatyard on the Belfast Bay in 2013.

Together, the two boat-building companies have restored Belfast's working waterfront and helped revive the town/city economy as well as appeal to tourists.

Movies filmed in Belfast include Peyton Place (1957), Thinner (1996) and In the Bedroom (2001). Belfast Bay Belfast is positioned at 44 25 33 N 69 0 42 W (44.425896, -69.011646). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 38.37 square miles (99.38 km2), of which, 34.04 square miles (88.16 km2) is territory and 4.33 square miles (11.21 km2) is water. Situated on Penobscot Bay, Belfast is drained by the Passagassawakeag River.

Belfast is bordered by Waldo and Swanville to the north, Searsport to the east, Northport to the south, Belmont to the southwest and Morrill to the west.

It is served by US Route 1, Maine State Routes SR 3, SR 7, SR 52.

According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Belfast has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. There were 3,049 homeholds of which 24.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.4% were married couples living together, 11.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.8% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 43.3% were non-families.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 20.9% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 24.2% from 25 to 44, 27.3% from 45 to 64, and 20.0% who were 65 years of age or older.

About 10.0% of families and 13.2% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 19.5% of those under age 18 and 9.1% of those age 65 or over.

Mascot- Belfast Lions Schools Part of Belfast's MSAD #34 District as of 2009: Captain Albert Stevens Elementary School- Grades K-5 Consolidation of Pierce, Anderson and Robertson Schools (Located in Belfast) East Belfast School- Grades K-5 (Located in East Belfast, nicknamed "East Side School") Howard Middle School- Grades 6-8 (Located in Belfast) Belfast Area High School- Grades 9-12 (Located in Belfast) Belfast In order to save cash, many schools in the state of Maine are forced to combine with other districts.

Howard Middle School and Belfast Area High School Vice Principal Bruce Mailloux.

Belfast Those communities include Belfast, Searsmont, Stockton Springs, Belmont, Morrill, Northport, Searsmont and Swanville.

Belfast voted in February 2014 to spend $25,000 to put together a report on the educational and financial impacts of leaving RSU 20.

Belfast Historical Society & Museum Belfast Free Library, a enhance library established in 1887 Belfast City Park, a park established in 1904 Charge d'Affaires in Peru, 1845 47; later Mayor of Belfast) History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine.

Maine League of Historical Societies and Museums (1970).

Maine Genealogy: Belfast Maine Encyclopedia: Belfast (1886), Gazetteer of the state of Maine.

Belfast, Boston: Russell The Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad "History of Belfast", Belfast Historical Society & Museum Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce Climate Summary for Belfast, Maine "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

Troy Howard Middle School Archived December 1, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

History of Belfast (1827) Belfast, Maine (motion picture).

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City of Belfast, Maine Belfast Free Library Belfast Radio History Belfast Radio Receiver Station BMLRR.com (An illustrated online history of the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad, chartered in 1867.) Municipalities and communities of Waldo County, Maine, United States Cities of Maine State of Maine

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