Wiscasset
Wiscasset is a town in and the seat of Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The municipality is located in the state of Maine's Mid Coast region. The population was 3,742 as of the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,750 residents
- Description: town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States
- Also known as: “Wetchi sankasek”, “Wichigaskitaywick”, “Wiscasset, Maine”, “Wiscasset, ME”, and “Wiscassett”
- Postal code: 04578
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wiscasset Jail and Museum and Castle Tucker.
Wiscasset Jail and Museum
Museum
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The Wiscasset Jail and Museum is a historic jail on at 133 Federal Street in Wiscasset, Maine. Built in 1811, it is one Maine's oldest surviving jail buildings, serving as the state's first penitentiary between 1820 and 1824.
Castle Tucker
Castle
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Castle Tucker is a historic mansion in Wiscasset, Maine, United States. It is owned by Historic New England and is open to visitors Wednesday – Sunday, June 1 – October 15.
Fort Edgecomb
Fort
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Fort Edgecomb, built in 1808–1809, is a two-story octagonal wooden blockhouse with restored fortifications located on Davis Island in the town of Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine, United States.
Wiscasset
- Categories: town in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Town of Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Mid Coast, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.0025° or 44° 0′ 9″ northLongitude
-69.6648° or 69° 39′ 53″ westPopulation
3,750Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)IATA airport code
ISSOpen location code
87PG282P+X3OpenStreetMap ID
node 158858870OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Wiscasset” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Wiscasset”
- Bulgarian: “Уискасит”
- Catalan: “Wiscasset”
- Cebuano: “Wiscasset”
- Chechen: “Вискассет”
- Chinese: “Wiscasset”
- Chinese: “威斯卡西特”
- Dutch: “Wiscasset”
- French: “Wiscasset”
- German: “Wiscasset”
- Haitian: “Wiscasset, Maine”
- Haitian: “Wiscasset”
- Hungarian: “Wiscasset”
- Irish: “Wiscasset”
- Italian: “Wiscasset”
- Japanese: “ウィスカセット”
- Kazakh: “Вискассэт”
- Kirghiz: “Вискассэт”
- Mazanderani: “ویسکاست”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wiscasset”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wiscasset”
- Polish: “Wiscasset”
- Russian: “Уискассет”
- Serbian: “Wiscasset, Maine”
- Serbian: “Wiscasset”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wiscasset, Maine”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wiscasset”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویسکاست، مئین”
- Spanish: “Wiscasset (Maine)”
- Spanish: “Wiscasset”
- Swedish: “Wiscasset”
- Tatar: “Вискассет”
- Turkish: “Wiscasset”
- Ukrainian: “Віскассет”
- Volapük: “Wiscasset”
- Welsh: “Wiscasset, Maine”
- Welsh: “Wiscasset”
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