Passamaquoddy Bay from Lubec

West Quoddy Head Lighthouse

LUBEC

In 1847 it both ceded land to Eastport and annexed land from Trescott.

This photo of Lubec was taken in May of 1973 looking west from Campobello Island. Smoke is emitted by the McCurdy packing plant where herring was smoked. (U.S. EPA photo, National Archives # NWDNS-412-DA-7822)

Lubec contains the easternmost point of land in the United States: West Quoddy Head, on which the famous lighthouse of the same name is located. A State Park is nearby and open from June through Labor Day.

South Lubec Sand Bar is a barrier beach whose extensive tidal mud flats, which adjoin it, are an internationally important shorebird staging area. In the fall, tens of thousands of shorebirds congregate at this site to feed and rest during their southern migration. It is managed by The Nature Conservancy.

The town also is the gateway to the Canadian island of Campobello, the longtime and now historic summer home of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Lubec is the birthplace of  Myron H. Avery, a key to the creation of the Appalachian Trail and a founder of the Maine Appalachian Trail Club.

National Register of Historic Places - Listings

Fowler, Jeremiah, House 12/29/83, 35 School Street 
Lubec Channel Light Station 3/14/88, Lubec Channel 
McCurdy Smokehouse 7/15/93, Water Street, east side, at junction with School Street
West Quoddy Head Light Station 7/4/80, Southeast of Lubec on West Quoddy Head 
West Quoddy Lifesaving Station 4/20/90, North side W. Quoddy Head 
Young, Daniel, House 3/22/84, 34 Main Street