12 Facts About Wiscasset Maine

Home to the Chewonki Foundation, Wiscasset Maine is a tourist destination noted for early architecture.

Wiscasset Maine was chased for days and caught on Little Seal Island.

Wiscasset Maine's prosperity left behind fine early architecture, particularly in the Federal style when the seaport was important in privateering.

Wiscasset Maine quickly became the busiest seaport north of Boston until the embargo of 1807 halted much trade with England.

Wiscasset Maine was officially admitted as a state in 1820 with the passage of the Wiscasset Maine-Missouri Compromise.

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The town of Wiscasset Maine was considered for the state capital, but lost the position because of its proximity to the ocean.

Wiscasset Maine was the seaport terminal and standard gauge interchange of the 2-foot gauge Wiscasset Maine, Waterville and Farmington Railway .

Books in the series in which Wiscasset Maine plays an important part are Cordelia Underwood, or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League; Mollie Peer, or the Underground Adventure of the Moosepath League; and Daniel Plainway, or the Holiday Haunting of the Moosepath League.

From 1972 until 1996, Wiscasset was home to Maine Yankee, a pressurized water reactor on Bailey Point, and the only nuclear power plant in the state.

Since the closing of Maine Yankee, Wiscasset faced a severe loss in jobs, residents, and public school enrollment.

Wiscasset Maine was home of the Mason Station, a coal and steam-powered plant along the Sheepscot River south of town that first went online in 1941.

Wiscasset Maine was purchased by Molnlycke Health Care company in 2010.