Eastport
MARITIME HERITAGE
Once the largest trading port on the eastern seaboard, this coastal city offers a glimpse into industries that shaped America’s prosperity—shipbuilding, sardine canning, and even pearlessence, a cosmetic ingredient born here.
A WORKING WATERFRONT
The spirit of industriousness lives on through lobstering, salmon farming, and new efforts to harness the incredible power of 24-foot tides—among the world’s highest.
HISTORIC CHARM
Cruisers enjoy easy access to a walkable downtown with 28 Victorian-era buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, plus galleries, artisan shops, and fresh local seafood celebrating a proud maritime past.
ART + CULTURE
Downtown Eastport is both a working waterfront and the heart of the city filled with restaurants, shops, many interesting art galleries, and the Tides Institute Museum of Art.
MARITIME HERITAGE
Cruise on a genuine Maine working lobster boat and pull actual lobster traps in Passamaquoddy Bay. Experience 26+ foot tides and travel through the “Old Sow” Whirlpool, the hemisphere’s largest whirlpool, listen to the tales of the sea from our experienced Captain, see working salmon farming pens as part of the local aquaculture industry.
HISTORIC DOWNTOWN
Visit the Historic Downtown and learn about the “Great Fire” and how Eastport was one of only 3 US cities seized and held by a foreign power. From 1814 – 1818 Eastport was occupied by the British during the war of 1812 and granted back to the United States in 1818 by the Treaty of Ghent.
RESOURCES
Port Contacts
Chris Gardner
Port Director, Eastport Port Authority and Chamber of Commerce
Morgan Verge
Operations Administration, Eastport Port Authority
