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Town in Maine, United states

Camden, Maine
Town
Aerial view of Camden from the harbor
Location in Knox County and the state of Maine.
Coordinates: 44°13′v″North 69°four′55″Due west  /  44.21806°North 69.08194°W  / 44.21806; -69.08194
State	United states of america
State	Maine
County	Knox
Incorporated	1791
Villages	Camden Melvin Heights
Area [ane]
• Total	26.65 sq mi (69.02 km2)
• Land	xviii.24 sq mi (47.24 kmii)
• Water	eight.41 sq mi (21.78 km2)
Top	207 ft (63 one thousand)
Population (2020)
• Full	v,232
• Density	287/sq mi (110.viii/km2)
Fourth dimension zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-four (EDT)
ZIP codes	04843, 04847
Area code(due south)	207 Exchanges: 230,236
FIPS code	23-09725
GNIS feature ID	0582384
Website	[1]

Camden is a resort town in Knox Canton, Maine, United States. The population was 5,232 at the 2022 census.^[2] The population of the town more than triples during the summertime months, due to tourists and summer residents. Camden is a summer colony in the Mid-Coast region of Maine. Similar to Bar Harbor, Nantucket and Due north Haven, Camden is well known for its summertime customs of wealthy Northeasterners, generally from Boston, New York and Philadelphia.

History [edit]

The Penobscot Nation have lived in the area for thousands of years. They called it Megunticook, meaning "great swells of the sea", a reference to the silhouette of the Camden Hills (more visibly seen on a bright night). Although part of the Waldo Patent, Europeans did not attempt to colonize it until after the French and Indian State of war, around 1771–1772. They were led by James Richards, who built a dwelling at the oral fissure of the Megunticook River. Others soon followed, squatting on Penobscot state and attempting to farm the broken and often mountainous terrain. The first home in the expanse was the Conway House, a Cape Cod mode home built in 1770. In 1962, it was purchased and renovated into a history museum.^[three]

When Castine was held by the British in 1779, Camden became a rendezvous point and encampment for the Americans, who were commanded past Major George Ulmer. During a raid, the British burned a sawmill. On February 17, 1791, the Massachusetts Full general Court incorporated Megunticook Plantation every bit Camden, named after Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a member of the British Parliament and proponent of civil liberties. During the State of war of 1812, a battery was built atop Mount Battie near the hamlet. Information technology had both a 12- and 18-pounder gun, but no gunner qualified to operate them. Nevertheless, the fort'southward appearance of readiness kept the British at bay.^[4]

When peace returned, Camden grew rapidly. The Megunticook River provided excellent water power sites for mills. In addition to sawmills and gristmills, by 1858 the town had carriage factories, sash and blind factories and blacksmith shops. There were half-dozen shipyards, launching ten to twelve vessels annually. By 1886, the town also made foundry products, railroad cars, woolens and paper mill feltings, anchors, wedges, plugs and treenails, planking, pulverization kegs, excelsior, mattresses, powder, tinware, oakum, wool rolls, boots and shoes, leather, flour and meal, corn brooms and barrels. Camden was 2d just to nearby Rockland in the lucrative manufacture of lime, excavated at quarries and processed in kilns before beingness shipped to various ports around the U.s. until 1891, when Rockport was set off equally a separate town. Every bit the 19th century came to an finish, Camden was very much a shipbuilding town with the H.M. Bean G launching the largest four-masted schooner Charlotte A. Maxwell and the first six-main ever built-the George W. Wells.^[5]

In the 1880s, sportsmen and "rusticators," began to discover the natural beauty of Camden during the summer and autumn, becoming seasonal residents. Sarah Orne Jewett's stories of nostalgia for the sea, Camden's scenery, fine old homes of bounding main captains, and the paintings of Fitz Hugh Lane, Frederick Church, and Childe Hassam evoked a romantic vision of Maine and induced many to come up to stay at the Bayview Firm Hotel, Ocean Business firm, and Mrs. Hosmer's Boarding House. In 1880, Edwin Dillingham built the first purpose-built summer cottages in Camden on Dillingham Indicate. Thereafter, the summertime colony at Camden quickly grew to include some of the wealthiest, about prominent families in the country. These new summer residents from Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Washington, D.C. and even Chicago, built big, rambling Shingle Way "cottages" forth High Street, Bay View Street and on Beauchamp Betoken to rival those in Bar Harbor. The summer people arrived on the Boston Boats or on the Maine Central Railroad at Rockland. Local residents, who had formerly gone to ocean to earn a living, institute jobs every bit caretakers, gardeners, and carpenters to the rich and powerful.

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  Camden in 1906

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  Camden Hills in 1906

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  High Street in 1913

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  Charlotte A. Maxwell, a 4-masted schooner congenital at Camden, launched in 1917

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  Curtis Island Light c. 1920

In November 1892, a burn down fed past a stiff easterly air current-burned the concern district to the ground. Immediately, Camden businessmen drew together to make the investment required to build 12 large brick buildings, including the Camden Opera House and, controversially, the Masonic Temple (at present the Lord Camden Inn). The Great Fire, equally it became known, did not, notwithstanding, discourage increasing numbers of affluent summer people from making Camden their summer enclave. Indeed, in 1897 a road was built to the superlative of Mt. Battie, one of the two mountains rise in a higher place the town, and an inn was erected at the acme. In 1898, a group of wealthy summertime residents from Philadelphia established the Megunticook Golf game Club on Beauchamp Signal. And in 1901, the Whitehall Inn opened on High Street in an sometime mansion built by a sea helm, catering to a well-to-do clientele. Effectually the turn of the century families such as Curtis, Bok, Keep, Gribbel, Dillingham and Borland not only congenital estates but their donations resulted in the public library, the amphitheatre, which was designed past Fletcher Steele, the Camden Harbor Park, which was designed by the Olmsted Brothers, the Village Green, and the Camden Opera House.

Camden Yacht Society [edit]

The Philadelphia publishing tycoon, Cyrus Curtis, maintained a summer home and several yachts in Camden. Given the many other private yachts of the upper class that filled Camden Harbor also, Curtis decided in 1912 to establish and build the Camden Yacht Society. In 2006, as office of the club's centennial celebrations, the Club published 'From steam to sail : 100 years of the Camden Yacht Guild" ^[6] Yachting continues to thrive in Camden, particularly during the summertime months, with the HAJ Boat racing fleet at the Yacht Club with the younger sailors in their turnabouts. In 1936 the prowl schooner business was started by Captain Frank Swift and the windjammer fleet continues to this day.

Music and culture [edit]

Music and cultural interests have long flourished in Camden. In 1912, Edna St. Vincent Millay read "Renascence," a poem she wrote from the summit of Mt. Battie, to the guests at the Whitehall Inn, one of whom offered to pay her tuition to Vassar. Afterward graduating from Vassar, she went on to write poetry and plays that made her ane of the most famous women in America and an inspiration for the Roaring Twenties, winning the Pulitzer Prize. The French harpist, composer and conductor, Carlos Salzedo, founded the internationally renowned Salzedo Summer Harp Colony in Camden and each summer held a Harp Festival in the amphitheater beside the library. Camden/Rockport as well is home to the Bay Sleeping accommodation Concert Company. Theatre productions at the Opera House and Shakespeare in the Amphitheatre enriched the lives of residents and summer visitors for generations. In the 1950s, artists and writers of pregnant reputation began moving to Camden and neighboring Rockport, where local artists organized Maine Coast Artists. Wayne Doolittle began publishing Down East Magazine in 1954, and in 1956 Carousel was filmed in Camden, followed by Peyton Place in 1957, because the quaint, old town with its picturesque harbor and scenery, looked like the film-perfect American town.^{[ citation needed ]} Since and then Camden'south setting has not gone unnoticed by Hollywood with Steven King's Thinner in 1995, Todd Field'south In the Bedroom in 2001, and with the soap opera Passions using Camden for shots depicting the fictional town Harmony.

Camden's many prominent summer and yr-round residents accept been a valuable resources to the town in many ways over the by 125 years, a tradition of partnership which continues today in many forms, not to the lowest degree by helping to found some internationally renowned events, namely The Camden Conference and Pop!Tech. The Camden Briefing has been held annually for about a quarter of a century to foster informed discourse on globe bug. Convened in the historic Camden Opera House, the event draws some of the all-time minds on foreign policy to share their insights and expertise on a range of global issues. The Popular!Tech conference, which takes place each fall, gathers a global community of cut-edge leaders, thinkers, and doers from many different disciplines to explore the social impact of new technologies, the forces of change shaping our future, and new approaches to solving the world's well-nigh significant challenges.

The boondocks is home to a summer Shakespeare festival, the Camden Shakespeare Company, which performs in an amphitheater behind the boondocks library. During the 2nd weekend of February, the annual U.Due south. National Toboggan Championships are held at the town-owned Camden Snow Bowl. This nationally known race started as a distraction for something to practise during the long Maine winters, and more than xx years later is one of New England's premier cold-weather events. The iced chute is 400 feet (120 thousand) long, and the iv-man teams attain speeds of up to 35 miles (56 km) an hr. Most racers go far in costume, and 100% percent of race acquirement is used to beginning operating expenses for this recreation area.

Camden is the location of the 2000 HGTV Dream Habitation.

The Points North Establish, located in Camden and Rockport, Maine, is organizing the almanac Camden International Pic Festival (CIFF) founded in 2005. Information technology focuses exclusively on documentary picture show and building community among the professional filmmakers. The Points North Forum was launched in 2009 to provide debates about documentary developments on a par with peers. Over the following years more than l funders, broadcasters, distributors and producers have been participating annually. Further on, in 2022 every bit a partnership with Tribeca Film Institute the Camden/TFI Retreat was started, a week-long educational program. Additionally was introduced: the Shortform Editing Residency, the North Star Fellowship, Points N 1:1 Meetings, and the 4th World Indigenous Media Lab.^[7]

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  Main Street

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  Camden harbor

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  Public Library

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  Baptist Church building

In popular culture [edit]

• The 2001 Best Picture show Academy Laurels nominated film In the Bedroom had scenes that were shot in Camden. Specifically, the celebrated welcome arch, the bar where Tom Wilkinson's character goes looking for his son'south friend, the Camden Harbor Park and Amphitheatre where Sissy Spacek's character directs the Balkan Girl's Chorus in an outdoor concert, the exterior of the bar where her son's killer is working, and the shots of the boondocks at dawn from the summit of Mountain Battie for the film's finale^[viii]
• The majority of the 1995 movie Casper was filmed in Camden, though the story takes place in Friendship. The production crew chose Camden, citing it to be "more authentic". In the film, Friendship is home to a fictional Art Nouveau mansion called Whipstaff Manor, which is haunted by four ghosts. However Whipstaff Manor is non a real mansion located on the sea front of Camden. The lower exterior and interior of the mansion was congenital on a set.
• Other movies shot in Camden includes Captains Courageous (1937), Carousel (1957) and Peyton Identify (1957)^[9] and Head Above Water (1996).

Geography [edit]

Co-ordinate to the The states Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 26.65 foursquare miles (69.02 km²), of which, 18.24 foursquare miles (47.24 km²) of it is land and 8.41 foursquare miles (21.78 km²) is water.^[1] Drained past the Megunticook River, Camden is located beside Penobscot Bay and the Gulf of Maine, part of the Atlantic Ocean. Principal bodies of water include: Megunticook Lake, Hosmer Pond (54 acres), Impoundment (Seabright Pond) (74 acres) and Lily Swimming (32 acres). Mount Megunticook has an height of 1385 feet (419 m).

The view from Bald Mountain, Camden

The town is crossed by U. S. Route 1 and state routes 52 and 105. It borders the towns of Rockport to the south, Promise to the southwest, and Lincolnville to the northward.

Climate [edit]

Like most of New England, Camden has a humid continental climate with wide variations in temperature betwixt seasons. ^[ten]

Climate data for Camden, Maine
Month	Jan	February	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Tape high °F (°C)	56 (thirteen)	61 (16)	74 (23)	80 (27)	95 (35)	94 (34)	96 (36)	93 (34)	xc (32)	82 (28)	74 (23)	63 (17)	96 (36)
Average high °F (°C)	30 (−1)	33 (ane)	40 (4)	52 (xi)	62 (17)	71 (22)	76 (24)	76 (24)	68 (twenty)	57 (fourteen)	47 (8)	36 (2)	54 (12)
Boilerplate depression °F (°C)	10 (−12)	fourteen (−10)	22 (−6)	33 (1)	43 (6)	53 (12)	59 (fifteen)	58 (14)	50 (10)	39 (iv)	30 (−one)	xviii (−viii)	36 (2)
Record low °F (°C)	−22 (−xxx)	−20 (−29)	−11 (−24)	10 (−12)	21 (−6)	30 (−1)	43 (6)	37 (3)	28 (−2)	19 (−7)	4 (−16)	−25 (−32)	−25 (−32)
Average atmospheric precipitation inches (mm)	4.26 (108)	4.00 (102)	iv.fourscore (122)	5.02 (128)	4.14 (105)	4.06 (103)	3.43 (87)	3.28 (83)	4.51 (115)	5.14 (131)	v.71 (145)	4.99 (127)	53.34 (ane,356)
Average snowfall inches (cm)	19 (48)	17 (43)	fourteen (36)	4 (10)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	3 (seven.half dozen)	16 (41)	73 (190)
Source 1: weather.com[11]
Source 2: MyForecast.com[12]

Demographics [edit]

Historical population
Demography	Pop.		%±
1790	331		—
1800	872		163.4%
1810	1,607		84.three%
1820	i,825		13.half-dozen%
1830	2,200		20.five%
1840	three,005		36.6%
1850	4,005		33.3%
1860	iv,588		14.6%
1870	4,512		−1.7%
1880	four,386		−ii.8%
1890	4,621		5.four%
1900	2,825		−38.9%
1910	iii,015		6.7%
1920	three,403		12.9%
1930	3,606		6.0%
1940	3,554		−1.4%
1950	three,670		3.3%
1960	3,988		eight.vii%
1970	4,115		iii.ii%
1980	4,584		11.4%
1990	five,060		10.4%
2000	5,254		3.8%
2010	4,850		−7.seven%
2020	5,232		seven.9%
U.S. Decennial Census

See also: Camden (CDP), Maine

2010 demography [edit]

Equally of the census^[13] of 2010, there were 4,850 people, ii,382 households, and 1,313 families residing in the boondocks. The population density was 265.9 inhabitants per square mile (102.7/km²). There were 3,165 housing units at an boilerplate density of 173.5 per square mile (67.0/kmⁱⁱ). The racial makeup of the town was 97.6% White, 0.3% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.ii% from other races, and 1.0% from 2 or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.1% of the population.

There were ii,382 households, of which 21.four% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.7% were married couples living together, 8.three% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 44.9% were non-families. 39.2% of all households were made upwards of individuals, and 22.four% had someone living lone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.01 and the average family size was ii.65.

The median historic period in the town was 53.two years. 17.9% of residents were nether the age of eighteen; 4.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; xvi.ii% were from 25 to 44; 33.5% were from 45 to 64; and 27.seven% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 45.vi% male and 54.4% female.

2000 census [edit]

At the 2000 census,^[14] there were 5,254 people, two,390 households and 1,414 families residing in the town. The population density was 287.iii per square mile (151/km²). There were 2,883 housing units at an boilerplate density of 157.6 per square mile (60.nine/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.33% White, 0.25% Black, 0.thirteen% Native American, 0.40% Asian, 0.fifteen% from other races, and 0.74% from two or more than races. Hispanic or Latino of whatever race were 0.86% of the population.

At that place were 2,390 households, of which 24.ane% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.1% were married couples living together, eight.five% had a divorced female householder, and 40.8% were not-families. 34.viii% of all households were made up of individuals, and sixteen.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The boilerplate household size was ii.11 and the average family unit size was ii.71.

The age distribution was 19.seven% under the age of 18, 4.iv% from 18 to 24, 22.2% from 25 to 44, xxx.3% from 45 to 64, and 23.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median historic period was 47 years. For every 100 females, there were 83.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, in that location were 77.1 males.

The median household income was $39,877, and the median family income was $56,439. Males had a median income of $33,500 versus $26,645 for females. The per capita income for the town was $26,126. Nearly 5.5% of families and 8.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.5% of those under age 18 and vii.ii% of those age 65 or over.

Beginnings/ethnicity [edit]

Every bit of 2022 the largest self-identified ancestry groups/ethnic groups in Camden, Maine were:^[xv]

Largest ancestries (2017)	Per centum
English	28.i%
Irish gaelic	19.vii%
High german	14.1%
Scottish	11.6%
Italian	seven.0%
French (except Basque)	six.three%
French Canadian	3.7%
Russian	three.half-dozen%
Swedish	iii.iv%
Dutch	3.3%
Welsh	2.7%
Portuguese	ii.three%

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Economy [edit]

Banks [edit]

• Camden National Bank

Instruction [edit]

Camden is serviced by six public and private schools. They are:

• The Children's Firm Montessori School^[sixteen]
• Ashwood Waldorf School
• Service by MSAD 28, which operates:
  • Camden Rockport Elementary School
  • Camden Rockport Middle School
• Service past the Five Town Customs Schoolhouse District, which operates:
  • Camden Hills Regional High Schoolhouse
• The Watershed School

Sites of interest [edit]

• Baldheaded Mountain
• Bay Chamber Concerts
• Camden Public Library
  • The Walsh History Heart
  • Peyton Place Athenaeum
  • Edna St.Vincent Millay Archives
• Camden Hills State Park
• Camden Opera House
  • Conway House Museum
  • Mary Meeker Cramer Museum
• Camden Snowfall Bowl
• Curtis Island Lighthouse
• Camden Town office
• Maiden's Cliff

Notable people [edit]

• Kay Aldridge, model, actress
• Gordon Bok, vocalizer and songwriter
• Carleton F. Bryant, U.S. Navy Vice admiral and veteran of both Earth Wars
• Charles Cawley, founder of MBNA
• David One thousand. Conover, documentary film and television managing director
• William Conway, Navy quartermaster
• Cyrus Curtis, publishing tycoon
• Paul Doiron, novelist
• Jeremiah W. Farnham, body of water helm
• Harold Allen Fernald, publishing executive
• Tess Gerritsen, novelist
• Joseph Hall, congressman
• David Miramant, Maine country legislator
• David McCullough, historian and author
• Don McLean, singer and songwriter^[17]
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pulitzer prize-winning poet
• O. Stillman Rockefeller, fellow member of the Rockefeller family
• Richard Russo, novelist
• John Sculley, industrialist and onetime CEO of Apple
• Matthew Simmons, investment banker
• Ephraim K. Smart, congressman and founder of the Maine Costless Press
• Thomas J. Watson, industrialist and founder of IBM
• Jonas Wheeler, start Camden representative to the Maine Business firm of Representatives

Free State [edit]

Camden fabricated national headlines in 2010 after it was announced that the town would be giving some land away (2.eight acres and a run-down leather tannery) for "free", on the status that a prospectful business possessor would have to pay $175,000 to the city of Camden and create 24 "total time" jobs. Equally of 2012, Camden had yet to find whatsoever takers.^[eighteen] In fact, the country was still bachelor for "free" equally of 2018.

See too [edit]

• Center for Creative Imaging

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} "US Gazetteer files 2010". United States Demography Agency. Retrieved 2012-12-16 .
2. ^ "Demography - Geography Profile: Camden town, Knox County, Maine". Retrieved January thirteen, 2022.
3. ^ John Lymburner Locke, Sketches of the History of the Town of Camden, Maine 1859
4. ^ Coolidge, Austin J.; John B. Mansfield (1859). A History and Description of New England. Boston, Massachusetts: A.J. Coolidge. pp. 82–83. coolidge mansfield history description new england 1859.
5. ^ Varney, George J. (1886), Gazetteer of the land of Maine. Camden, Boston: Russell, retrieved 2008-05-10 ^{[ dead link ]}
6. ^ James L. Bowditch, Rodney B. Plimpton, and Vaughan Lee 'From steam to sail : 100 years of the Camden Yacht Club' (Camden, Me. : Camdem Yacht Club, 2006)
7. ^ "Camden has grown into a major documentary effect". pointsnorthinstitute.org . Retrieved 2020-07-18 .
8. ^ "In the Bedroom Filming Locations". IMDb.
9. ^ Barth, Jack (1991). Roadside Hollywood: The Movie Lover'due south Country-Past-Land Guide to Film Locations, Celebrity Hangouts, Celluloid Tourist Attractions, and More. Gimmicky Books. Folio 242. ISBN 9780809243266.
10. ^ "Climate Data".
11. ^ "Monthly Averages for Camden, Maine". Conditions.com. The Weather Aqueduct. Retrieved Baronial 15, 2013.
12. ^ "Camden, ME Climate". MyForecast.co. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
13. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2012-12-16 .
14. ^ "U.S. Demography website". United States Demography Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31 .
15. ^ ^{a b} "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2019-05-26 . {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: archived re-create as title (link)
16. ^ "Home". camdenmontessori.org.
17. ^ MacAvoy, Suzette (August 2009). "Patrisha Mclean, Hilltop Gardens Photography, Profile". Maine Home + Pattern . Retrieved June 24, 2019.
18. ^ "Nevertheless no takers for costless land in Camden". seven Apr 2012.

External links [edit]

• Metropolis of Camden
• Chamber of Commerce
• Camden, Maine travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Camden Public Library
• The Camden Conference
• Pop!Tech Conference
• Seven Towns Where Land Is Complimentary; CNBC.com; November 17, 2010

Coordinates: 44°12′35″N 69°03′53″Due west  /  44.20972°N 69.06472°W  / 44.20972; -69.06472

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