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Location in Knox County and the state of Maine.
Camden is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States.
The populace of the town more than triples amid the summer months, due to tourists and summer residents.
Camden is a famous summer colony in the Mid-Coast region of Maine.
Similar to Bar Harbor, Nantucket and North Haven, Camden is well known for its summer improve of wealthy Northeasterners, mostly from Boston, New York and Philadelphia.
1.1 Camden Yacht Club Penobscot Abenaki Indians called the region Megunticook, meaning "great swells of the sea", a reference to the silhouette of the Camden Hills (more visibly seen on a bright evening).
When Castine was held by the British in 1779, Camden became a rendezvous point and encampment for the Americans, who were commanded by Major George Ulmer.
On February 17, 1791, the Massachusetts General Court incorporated Megunticook Plantation as Camden, titled after Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a member of the British Parliament and proponent of civil liberties.
When peace returned, Camden interval rapidly.
Camden was second only to close-by Rockland in the lucrative manufacture of lime, excavated at quarries and processed in kilns before being shipped to various ports around the United States until 1891, when Rockport was set off as a separate town.
As the 19th century came to an end, Camden was very much a ship assembly town with the H.M.
In the 1880s, sportsmen and "rusticators," began to discover the natural beauty of Camden amid the summer and autumn, becoming cyclic residents.
Sarah Orne Jewett's stories of nostalgia for the sea, Camden's unique scenery, fine old homes of sea captains, and the paintings of Fitz Hugh Lane, Frederick Church, and Childe Hassam evoked a romantic vision of Maine and induced many to come to stay at the Bayview House Hotel, Ocean House, and Mrs.
In 1880, Edwin Dillingham assembled the first purpose-built summer cottages in Camden on Dillingham Point.
Thereafter, the summer colony at Camden quickly interval to include some of the wealthiest, most prominent families in the country.
Camden in 1906 Camden Hills in 1906 Maxwell, a four-masted schooner assembled at Camden, launched in 1917 Immediately, Camden businessmen drew together to make the tremendous investment to build 12 large brick buildings, including the Camden Opera House and, controversially, the Masonic Temple (now the Lord Camden Inn).
The Great Fire, as it became known, did not, however, discourage increasing numbers of well-to-do summer citizens from making Camden their summer enclave.
Around the turn of the century families such as Curtis, Bok, Keep, Gribbel, Dillingham and Borland not only assembled beautiful estates but their generosity to the improve resulted in the elegant enhance library, the classical amphitheatre, which was designed by Fletcher Steele, the Camden Harbor Park, which was designed by the Olmsted Brothers, the Village Green, and the Camden Opera House.
Camden Yacht Club The Philadelphia publishing tycoon, Cyrus Curtis, maintained a summer home and a several yachts in Camden.
Given the many other magnificent private yachts of the upper class that filled Camden Harbor as well, Curtis decided in 1912 to establish and build the Camden Yacht Club.
In 2006, as part of the Club's centennial celebrations, the Club presented 'From steam to sail : 100 years of the Camden Yacht Club" Yachting continues to thrive in Camden, especially during the summer months, with the unique HAJ Boat racing fleet at the Yacht Club with the younger sailors in their turnabouts.
Music and cultural interests have long flourished in Camden.
The world-famous French harpist, composer and conductor, Carlos Salzedo, established the internationally famous Salzedo Summer Harp Colony in Camden and each summer held a Harp Festival in the amphitheater beside the library.
Theatre productions at the Opera House and Shakespeare in the Amphitheatre enriched the lives of inhabitants and summer visitors for generations.
In the 1950s, artists and writers of momentous reputation began moving to Camden and neighboring Rockport, where small-town artists organized Maine Coast Artists.
Wayne Doolittle began publishing Down East Magazine in 1954, and in 1956 Carousel was filmed in Camden, followed by Peyton Place in 1957, because the quaint, old town with its extremely picturesque harbor and the beautiful scenery, looked like the picture-perfect American town.
Since then Camden's charm and beautiful setting have not gone unnoticed by Hollywood with Steven King's Thinner in 1995, In the Bedroom in 2001, and with the soap opera Passions using Camden for shots depicting the fictional town Harmony.
Camden's many prominent summer and year-round inhabitants have been a valuable resource to the town in many ways over the past 125 years, a tradition of partnership which continues today in many forms, not least by helping to establish some internationally famous affairs, namely The Camden Conference and Pop!Tech.
The Camden Conference has been held annually for nearly a quarter of a century to foster informed discourse on world issues.
Convened in the historic Camden Opera House, the event draws some of the best minds on foreign policy to share their insights and expertise on a range of global issues.
National Toboggan Championships are held at the town-owned Camden Snow Bowl.
This nationally known race started as a lark for something to do amid the long Maine winters, and more than 20 years later is one of New England's premier cold-weather affairs.
Camden is the locale of the 2000 HGTV Dream Home.
Camden harbor According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 26.65 square miles (69.02 km2), of which, 18.24 square miles (47.24 km2) of it is territory and 8.41 square miles (21.78 km2) is water. Drained by the Megunticook River, Camden is positioned beside Penobscot Bay and the Gulf of Maine, part of the Atlantic Ocean.
The view from Bald Mountain, Camden Climate data for Camden, Maine See also: Camden (CDP), Maine As of the census of 2010, there were 4,850 citizens , 2,382 homeholds, and 1,313 families residing in the town.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 97.6% White, 0.3% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.2% from other competitions, and 1.0% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,382 homeholds of which 21.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 43.7% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.1% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 44.9% were non-families.
17.9% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 4.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 16.2% were from 25 to 44; 33.5% were from 45 to 64; and 27.7% were 65 years of age or older.
At the 2000 census, there were 5,254 citizens , 2,390 homeholds and 1,414 families residing in the town.
There were 2,390 homeholds of which 24.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 49.1% were married couples living together, 8.5% had a divorced female homeholder, and 40.8% were non-families.
The age distribution was 19.7% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 22.2% from 25 to 44, 30.3% from 45 to 64, and 23.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
Serviced by MSAD 28, which operates Camden Rockport Elementary School and Camden Rockport Middle School Serviced by the Five Town Community School District, which operates Camden Hills Regional High School Camden Public Library Camden Hills State Park Camden Opera House Camden Snow Bowl Camden Town office Camden harbor Jonas Wheeler, first Camden representative to the Maine House of Representatives John Lymburner Locke, Sketches of the History of the Town of Camden, Maine 1859 Camden, Boston: Russell Plimpton, and Vaughan Lee 'From steam to sail : 100 years of the Camden Yacht Club' (Camden, Me.
"Monthly Averages for Camden, Maine".
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