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Washington County, Maine

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102historic places

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1790formed

31,095pop. 2020

39cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 102 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966. Most listings are in or near Calais, Machiasport, Machias.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

64 of 102 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

102 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
"The Rim" and Site of Fort Foster	East Machias	Site	1973
Archibald-Adams House	Cherryfield	Building	1987
Atkinson-Koskinen Site 45.13	Steuben	Site	1984
Best, Charles, House	West Pembroke	Building	1982
Birch Point	Machiasport	Site	1997
Boynton High School, Former	Eastport	Building	2002
Boynton Street Historic District	Eastport	District	1984
Brewer, Henrietta, House	Robbinston	Building	1983
Brewer, John N.M., House	Robbinston	Building	1983
Bucknam House	Columbia Falls	Building	1975
Bucknam, Samuel, House	Columbia Falls	Building	1978
Burnham Tavern	Machias	Building	1973
Calais Free Library	Calais	Building	2001
Calais Historic District	Calais	District	1978
Calais Observatory	Calais	Site	2012
Calais Residential Historic District	Calais	District	1994
Campbell, Col, Samuel, House	Cherryfield	Building	1982
Campbell, David W., House	Cherryfield	Building	1984
Campbell, Frank, House	Cherryfield	Building	1982
Campbell, Gen. Alexander, House	Cherryfield	Building	1977
Central Congregational Church	Eastport	Building	1976
Centre Street Congregational Church	Machias	Building	1975
Chaloner House	Lubec	Building	2007
Charlotte Pound	Charlotte	Building	2005
Cherryfield Academy	Cherryfield	Building	1982
Cherryfield Historic District	Cherryfield	District	1990
Columbia House	Columbia Falls	Building	2000
Dennysville Historic District	Dennysville	District	1982
Devils Head Site	Calais	Site	2006
East Machias Historic District	East Machias	District	1973
Eastport Historic District	Eastport	District	1982
Eastport Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Eastport	Building	2016
Fort O'Brien	Machiasport	Structure	1969
Fort Sullivan	Eastport	District	1970
Fowler, Jeremiah, House	Lubec	Building	1983
Gallison Memorial Library	Harrington	Building	2001
Gates House	Machiasport	Building	1975
Gilmore House	Calais	Building	1979
Governors Point	Grand Lake Stream Plantation	Site	2001
Grace Episcopal Church	Robbinston	Building	2001
Grand Lake Stream Site	Grand Lake Stream	Site	1997
Hamilton, Thomas, House	Calais	Building	1982
Hinckley Hill Historic District	Calais	District	1994
Hog Island-62.23	Machiasport	Site	1997
Hog Island-62.24	Machiasport	Site	1997
Hog Island-62.25	Machiasport	Site	1997
Hog Island-62.29	Machiasport	Site	1997
Holmes Cottage	Calais	Building	1988
Holmes Point	Machiasport	Site	1997
Holmes, Dr. Job, House	Calais	Building	1990
Indian River Baptist Church	Addison	Building	1988
Jellison, Theodore, House	Calais	Building	1984
Jonesboro Grange #357	Jonesboro	Building	2010
Jonesboro Union Church	Jonesboro	Building	2002
Libby Island Light Station	Machiasport	Structure	1976
Liberty Hall	Machiasport	Building	1977
Lincoln House	Dennysville	Building	1978
Lion, The (locomotive)	Machias	Structure	1976
Little River Light Station	Cutler	District	1988
Lubec Channel Light Station	Lubec	Structure	1988
Machias Post Office and Customhouse	Machias	Building	1977
Machias Railroad Station	Machias	Building	1992
Machias Valley Grange, #360 (Former)	Machias	Building	2007
Maine Archeological Survey site 62.46	Machiasport	Site	2001
Mansion House, The	Robbinston	Building	1973
Marsh Stream Farm	Machiasport	District	2016
McCurdy Smokehouse (Additional Documentation)	Lubec	District	1993
McGlashan-Nickerson House	Red Beach	Building	1990
Moore, Henry D., Parish House and Library	Steuben	Building	2001
Narraguagus Light Station	Milbridge	District	1987
Nash, William M., House	Cherryfield	Building	1983
Ntolonapemk, Eastern Surplus Superfund Site	Meddybemps	Site	2001
Patten Building	Cherryfield	Building	1978
Perry, Clark, House	Machias	Building	1979
Petit Manan Light Station	Milbridge	District	1987
Pettegrove, Joshua, House	Red Reach	District	1994
Pike's Mile Markers	Calais	District	1995
Plummer, Capt. John, House	Addison	Building	2009
Porter Memorial Library	Machias	Building	1978
Reversing Falls Site	Pembroke	Site	1990
Ruggles House	Columbia Falls	Building	1970
Sewell Memorial Congregational Church	Robbinston	Building	2012
St. Anne's Episcopal Church	Calais	Building	1982
St. Croix Island International Historic Site	St. Croix Junction	District	1966
Talbot, James R., House	East Machias	Building	1983
Todd House	Eastport	Building	1980
U.S. Inspection Station-Calais (Ferry Point), Maine	Calais	Building	2014
Union Church, (former)	Columbia Falls	Building	2000
Union Evangelical Church	Addison	Building	1996
Union Hall	Danforth	Building	1987
Union Meeting House	Whiting	Building	2014
Wallace, Everett, House	Milbridge	Building	1996
Washburn, George, House	Calais	Building	1982
Washington County Courthouse	Machias	Building	1976
Washington County Jail	Machias	Building	1988
Wass. David and Hadassah. House	Addison	Building	2022
West Quoddy Head Light Station	Lubec	Structure	1980
West Quoddy Lifesaving Station	Lubec	District	1990
Whitlocks Mill Light Station	Calais	District	1988
Whitneyville Congregational Church	Whitneyville	Building	1979
Windswept	Steuben	Building	2007
Young, Daniel, House	Lubec	Building	1984

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Washington was formed in 1790 (1790-05-01) from Lincoln.

WASHINGTON created by Massachusetts from LINCOLN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Washington County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,758	4,461	12,744	28,327	42,534	44,484	45,232	41,709	37,767	35,187	32,908	34,963	33,941	31,095

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Saint Croix Island International Historic Site	International Historic Site	40.3 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

39 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 39 of 39 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bay View Cemetery	44.66896	-67.24249
Bayside Cemetery	44.91524	-66.99251
Brewer Cemetery	45.0809	-67.12193
Brookton Cemetery	45.53567	-67.76201
Calais Cemetery	45.17402	-67.26957
Church Hill Cemetery	44.61868	-67.75278
Columbia Cemetery	44.68329	-67.78633
Court Street Cemetery	44.71346	-67.46416
Damon Ridge Cemetery	45.01802	-67.30761
Dennysville Cemetery	44.89618	-67.23193
Eaton Cemetery	45.59923	-67.80426
Evergreen Cemetery	44.52257	-67.89445
Evergreen Cemetery	44.59668	-67.91987
Fairview Cemetery	45.04728	-67.14125
Flat Bay Cemetery	44.59785	-67.82417
Forest Hill Cemetery	44.95369	-67.16696
Forest Hills Cemetery	44.62661	-67.80224
Greenwood Cemetery	44.55145	-67.57646
Hillside Cemetery	44.9109	-66.99192
Hilltop Cemetery	45.6613	-67.87145
Indian River Cemetery	44.5706	-67.64267
Lakeview Cemetery	45.17859	-67.61666
Leland Cemetery	44.97894	-67.09496
Longfellow Cemetery	44.71573	-67.48653
Lubec Cemetery	44.85519	-66.99232
Mailey Hill Cemetery	44.64728	-67.76702
Mary Look Cemetery	44.70867	-67.313
Merritt Cemetery	44.62901	-67.70778
Morse Cemetery	44.63911	-67.89851
O'Brien Cemetery	44.71414	-67.45566
Old Crawford Cemetery	45.04146	-67.55866
Old Cutler Cemetery	44.6596	-67.23489
Pleasant River Cemetery	44.56	-67.7718
Princeton Cemetery	45.2079	-67.58391
Rock Maple Cemetery	44.60248	-67.86574
Round Pond Cemetery	45.01732	-67.25468
Saint Annes Cemetery	45.21356	-67.63046
Wescogus Cemetery	44.62056	-67.71229
West Lubec Split Hill Cemetery	44.82573	-67.04646

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Imnarkuan	44.95369	-67.16193

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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