Old Orchard Beach, Maine Old Orchard Beach, Maine Old Orchard Beach is positioned in Maine Old Orchard Beach - Old Orchard Beach Old Orchard Beach is a town and census-designated place (CDP) in York County, Maine, United States.

Located on the inner side of Saco Bay on the Atlantic Ocean, the town is a prominent summer beach destination.

The seven mile (11 km) long beach stretching away from the downtown is lined with many beach residentiary properties, condominiums, motels and bed and breakfasts. The Old Orchard Beach region began appearing in historical records around 1653.

The namesake orchard railwayfor approximately 150 years as a beacon of territory to sailors in the Atlantic Ocean. The historic Free Will Baptist revival camp at Ocean Park, Maine, just down the beach from central Old Orchard, was assembled in 1881 by Bates College President Oren B.

The mission of the Association, as declared to the State of Maine on January 24, 1881 was "to establish a place of summer resort for holding religious, educational and other meetings at Old Orchard, in Saco, Maine, in the County of York.". The improve still thrives today.

Over the years Old Orchard advanced into a primary resort.

Most of the large hotels were finished in the fire of 1907. The earliest hotel still standing on the beachfront in Old Orchard at this time is The Ocean House Hotel & Motel, about 1895, positioned at 71 West Grand Avenue.

The seaside amusement park Palace Playland is positioned in Old Orchard Beach.

Old Orchard Beach was home to the first carousel in the United States, Noah's Ark, a kid-friendly, boat-shaped funhouse with hand-carved figures of Noah and his family, was designed to furnish an exciting but not frightening experience for a 5-year-old.

Once a week, usually, the beach will have a firwork show on the beach at evening.

Pier at Old Orchard Beach After the war Old Orchard became somewhat downscale, becoming known as a destination for blue-collar partygoers.

Old Orchard Beach is home to the Old Orchard Beach Surge, a baseball team which plays in the autonomous Empire Professional Baseball League.

The beach at Old Orchard Beach Old Orchard Beach is positioned at 43 30 49 N 70 23 7 W (43.513714, -70.385363). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 22.53 square miles (58.35 km2), of which 7.43 square miles (19.24 km2) of it is territory and 15.10 square miles (39.11 km2) is water. During summer months, Amtrak's Downeaster train stops at Old Orchard Beach station with service to the Portland Transportation Center and Boston's North Station.

Old Orchard Beach is the twin town/city of the French seaside resort of Mimizan, as a reminder of Oiseau Canari, the pioneer airplane crossing of the Atlantic by Assollant, Lefevre and Lotti in 1929 to Oyambre (Cantabria, Spain).

Old Orchard Beach, amid the high tourist season, sees an influx of Lithuanian, Latvian, Turkish, Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian foreign exchange students looking for summer work.

Ferris wheel seen from the beach in Old Orchard Beach Leavitt House, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, about 1870 There were 4,454 homeholds of which 17.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 34.6% were married couples living together, 8.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.8% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 52.7% were non-families.

The ethnic makeup of the town was 97.54 percent White, 0.26 percent Black or African American, 0.28 percent Native American, 0.46 percent Asian, 0.03 percent Pacific Islander, 0.23 percent from other competitions, and 0.79 percent from two or more competitions.

There were 4,294 homeholds out of which 22.7 percent had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 38.7 percent were married couples living together, 10.1 percent had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 47.5 percent were non-families.

Fully 38.6 percent of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 11.7 percent had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

"Takadip" Bath House in 1914, Old Orchard Beach, ME In the town, the populace was spread out with 19.1 percent under the age of 18, 6.5 percent from 18 to 24, 33.2 percent from 25 to 44, 26.2 percent from 45 to 64, and 14.9 percent who were 65 years of age or older.

About 7.7 percent of families and 11.0 percent of the populace were below the poverty line, including 14.7 percent of those under age 18 and 15.1 percent of those age 65 or over.

The Magnetic Fields have a song entitled "Old Orchard Beach" on their 1992 album The Wayward Bus.

Maine author Josh Pahigian has a mystery novel entitled "Strangers on the Beach" set in Old Orchard Beach.

Part of Stephen King's novel Thinner is set at Old Orchard Beach Old Orchard Beach.

"Best Beaches in Maine".

The Old Orchard.

Blaney, Daniel E., Old Orchard Beach, Arcadia Publishing, 2007.

Varney, George J., Historical Sketch of Old Orchard Beach, Maine From A Gazetteer of the State of Maine", B.

Woodford, History of York County, Maine: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Higginson Book Company, 1880 - York County (Me.).

"History of Old Orchard Beach, Maine".

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Old Orchard Beach Maine History Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Old Orchard Beach.

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