Visit Bremen, Maine

 From the Bremen, Maine Home Page

Bremen is a small coastal town in Lincoln County, Maine. It is located on the eastern side of the Pemaquid Peninsula, facing the Medomak River and Muscongus Bay. Once part of Bristol, it became incorporated on February 19, 1828.

The town has a total area of 27.4 square miles, of which 16.5 square miles is land and 10.9 square miles is water. According to the 2000 census, Bremen has a year-round population of 782, which increases extensively in the summer. Two ponds, Webber and McCurdy, lie entirely within Bremen; two others, Pemaquid and Biscay, form the town’s western boundary.

Several large islands lie just offshore in the Medomak River and Muscongus Bay, including Bremen Long Island and Hog Island, home of the nationally known Audubon Camp and Todd Wildlife Sanctuary.

The main industry in town is centered on the coastal waterfront, primarily lobstering and clamming. The town is also home to several small businesses and cottage industries. The Bremen landscape is primarily forested, with occasional fields offering spectacular views of ponds and coastal waters.

Children in Bremen attend the Great Salt Bay School in Damariscotta and, generally, Lincoln Academy in Newcastle. The town has a Library, a Church, a Post Office and a Volunteer Fire Department. The old Bremen Town Hall is on the National Register of Historic Places. Bremen retains the town meeting form of government.

To see pictures of beautiful Bremen, Maine, view the Bremen slideshow.

Slideshow: http://s288.photobucket.com/albums/ll189/dianeoc/BeautifulBremen

Or www.tidewater.net~bremen/ which is the Bremen Home Page and hit the Bremen slideshow link at the bottom.

History

The Hilton name is mentioned as being founders of this area.

Abenaki tribes once summered on Keene Neck, hunting shellfish and leaving behind shell middens. The area was settled as part of Bristol in 1735 by William Hilton from Plymouth, Massachusetts. Driven off by Indians during the French and Indian Wars, he returned after the 1745 Battle of Louisburg. In May of 1755, Hilton and his three sons were ambushed by Indians while getting out of a boat, mortally wounding the father and killing his namesake.

Settled largely by German immigrants, it developed as a farming and fishing community. On February 19, 1828, the town was set off and incorporated, named after Bremen, Germany. Lobstering, clamming and tourism remain important industries.

Todd  Audubon Sanctuary

Located six miles southeast of Damariscotta on Muscongus Bay, Todd Audubon Sanctuary includes a 30-acre mainland parcel as well as 330-acre Hog Island, located a quarter-mile offshore and home to National Audubon's Hog Island Audubon Camp.

Please note that there are no public ferries to Hog Island. Visitors are allowed to beach small vessels on the island, but be advised that there are no public boat launches on the mainland. Hog Island itself is best enjoyed through annual summer ornithology camps for adults, teens, and families. Get more information, or download registration forms, at projectpuffin.org.

Trails

Enjoy this area best by walking one of these trails.

Hockomock Point Trail (1 mile)

Beginning at the visitor’s center, the Hockomock Point Trail is an easy, one-hour interpretive walk through meadows, woods—including spruce and red oak—and along granite ledges, stone walls and the shore of Muscongus Bay.

Pinetree Trail (.5 mile)

Beginning just below the pond on the road to the boathouse, the Pine Tree Trail is an easy 25-minute interpretive walk that traverses a meadow and winds through a hardwood forest dotted with several large white pine trees.

Meadow Trail (.5 mile)

Beginning below the visitor’s center by the trailhead of the Hockomock Point Trail, the gentle, picturesque Meadow Trail reveals superb stands of milkweed—which attract monarch butterflies—as well as abundant insect life and other botanical interests.

Hog Island Trail (3 miles)

Visitors by boat may walk the three-mile trail around the perimeter of Hog Island.


Hockomock Point Trail Map

A self-guided nature trail through woods and fields and along the shore. The trail passes an example of an Indian shell midden. People of the Abnaki Tribe summered on Keene Neck, digging shellfish and depositing the shells in heaps. The Audubon Ecology Camp has dug into one of these heaps, exposing layers of clamshells that date from the years before European colonization. General location: Keene Neck south of Waldoboro in Bremen, Lincoln County.