Harpswell Cattle Pound

The Harpswell Cattle Pound is a stone enclosure in Harpswell, Maine, United States. It was used to hold stray animals until they could be reunited with their owners.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Harpswell Meetinghouse.

Harpswell Meetinghouse

Place of worship

Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Harpswell Meetinghouse is a historic colonial meeting house on Maine State Route 123 in Harpswell, Maine. Built in 1757-59 to provide space for both religious services and town meetings, it is a little-altered and well-preserved example of a once-common form, and is the oldest such surviving building in the state of Maine.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Harpswell and Bailey Island.

Harpswell

Village

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Harpswell is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, on Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. The population was 5,031 at the 2020 census. Harpswell is composed of a peninsula contiguous with the rest of Cumberland County, called Harpswell Neck, as well as three large islands connected by bridges: Sebascodegan Island, Orr's Island, and Bailey Island.

Bailey Island

Photo: Paul VanDerWerf, CC BY 2.0.

Bailey Island is an island in Casco Bay, and a part of the town of Harpswell, in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census, Bailey Island had a year-round population of 363 people.

Harpswell Cattle Pound

Type: Historic site
Description: stone enclosure in maine, USA
Categories: animal pound, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Town of Harpswell, Cumberland County, Lakes and Mountains, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

43.79935° or 43° 47′ 58″ north

Longitude

-69.98709° or 69° 59′ 14″ west

Open location code

87MGQ2X7+P5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1340680608

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=pound

Wikidata ID

Q123111622

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