Kennebunkport, Maine Kennebunkport, Maine Official seal of Kennebunkport, Maine Kennebunkport, Maine is positioned in Maine Kennebunkport, Maine - Kennebunkport, Maine Kennebunkport is a town in York County, Maine, United States.

The town center, the region in and around Dock Square, is positioned along the Kennebunk River, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) from the mouth of the river on the Atlantic Ocean.

Historically a ship assembly and fishing village, for well over a century the town has been a prominent summer colony and seaside tourist destination.

Kennebunkport has a reputation as a summer haven for the upper class and is one of the wealthiest communities in the state of Maine.

Kennebunkport and neighboring suburbs Kennebunk and Arundel comprise school precinct RSU 21. 4 Summer home of the Bush family Kennebunkport was first incorporated in 1663 as Cape Porpus, subject to the government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Maine was admitted to the Union in 1820 as part of the Missouri Compromise).

The town was retitled Arundel, and the town center positioned inland at Burbank Hill.

In 1821 the town was retitled again, this time to Kennebunkport in reflection to its economy becoming one of ship assembly and trade along the Kennebunk River. By the 1870s the town had advanced as a prominent summer destination, with both hotels and homes constructed along its coastline.

Cape Arundel, Cape Porpoise, and Beachwood (now called Goose Rocks) were some of the early summer colonies; although Cape Porpoise was, and still is, a working fishing harbor.

The Great Fires of 1947, which devastated much of York County, affected Kennebunkport and especially the region near Goose Rocks Beach.

Like much of the northeast coast, the geography of the southern Maine coast was largely directed by the retreat of the Laurentide ice cap about 23,000 years ago. The coast is framed by bedrock, left amid the formation of the Appalachian mountain peaks, and the irregular shape of the coast (characteristic of much of the New England coast, with the exception of Cape Cod and the islands) is attributed to differential erosion of the underlying modern layer.

The coast along Kennebunkport differs sharply from the Maine coast north and east of Portland due to differences in the composition of this modern layer.

Beyond Portland, the layer is largely metamorphic rock, but here the coast is a mixture of igneous rock, and embayments of more deeply eroded sedimentary and metamorphic rock.

These embayments result in the sandy beaches that can be found in southern Maine (such as Goose Rocks Beach, Colony Beach, and close-by Kennebunk Beach), but are uncommon north of Portland.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 49.35 square miles (127.82 km2), of which, 20.52 square miles (53.15 km2) of it is territory and 28.83 square miles (74.67 km2) is water. The town has a several distinct areas, each advanced during a phase of the town's history.

The initial town center was at Cape Porpoise, which today has a small village center, is both a summer colony and year-round community, and hosts a working fishing harbor.

Inland from Cape Porpoise is a mix of forest and agricultural land, punctuated by an historic town center at Burbank Hill (there are a several historic buildings of interest here, including a schoolhouse and jail).

Heading west towards the mouth of the Kennebunk river is Dock Square, the current town center. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Kennebunkport, and especially Cape Arundel (also known as Point Arundel), advanced as a summer colony for the wealthy.

Traveling from Dock Square along Ocean Avenue is the Cape Arundel Summer Colony Historic District. This precinct of many well-preserved examples of early 20th-century shingle-style cottages begins at Chick's Creek and ends at Walker's Point. The Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge has a momentous portion of lands in Kennebunkport northeast of Cape Porpoise and through Goose Rocks. Within Kennebunkport, much of this protected territory is salt-water marsh.

According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Kennebunkport has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Main article: Bush compound Kennebunkport is also the summer home of former U.S.

First assembled by Bush's maternal grandfather George Herbert Walker, it has been a family home ever since, and has been owned by Bush[who?] since sometime in the early 1980s. The Bushes' lineage is distinct from the Walker family that settled York County, Maine.

Some of this family's Walker relatives are buried in the Kennebunkport region ancient cemeteries.

Bush often invited world leaders, from Margaret Thatcher to Mikhail Gorbachev, to Kennebunkport.

See also: Kennebunkport (CDP), Maine As of 2000 the median income for a homehold in the town was $54,219, and the median income for a family was $66,505.

As of the census of 2010, there were 3,474 citizens , 1,578 homeholds, and 1,039 families residing in the town.

Kennebunkport was featured in the 2003 recording of the film Empire Falls by Maine author Richard Russo, with a downtown book shop making a notable appearance.

Other movies with scenes filmed in Kennebunkport include Lost Boundaries (1949), [My Husband's Double Life] (2003), The Man Who Knew Bush (2004 Documentary), The Living Wake (2007), 41 (2012 Documentary) and US Route 1-ME (2012). "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Kennebunkport town, York County, Maine".

https://rsu21.net/facilities/ Maine Regional School unit 21 ARUNDEL|KENNEBUNK|KENNEBUNKPORT Facilities "Maine Historic Preservation Commission: National Register of Historic Places: Historic Properties: Historic District List".

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