South of Southport, Maine

Once in Southport, should you keep the needle of your compass pointing to "South", and drive until your front wheels get wet with saltwater, you will have found Newagen (or Cape Newagen) Maine.

Here's Becky at the end of Town Landing Road with the Cuckold Lighthouse in the distant background.



"This oddly named lighthouse is one of the last to be built on the Maine coast. The name Cuckolds, given to a pair of treacherous ledges at the entrance to Boothbay Harbor, is apparently after a point of land on the Thames River in England that was granted to a London man to assuage his anger after King John had an affair with his wife. The Cuckolds in Maine may have been named by a transplanted Londoner. Perhaps the loveliest time to observe The Cuckolds is at sunset from a boat close by to the eastward. The white light against a glowing red and golden sky... the dark outline of the trees on Cape Newagen, and tired seagulls winging their way eastward . . . produce a scene and a sense never to be forgotten."
-- Malcolm F. Willoughby, Boothbay Register, 1962.

I am guessing that Newagen is a township, perhaps a village? To get to the Southernmost end of the road you will drive through the center of Newagen and I suspect you will miss it, just as Becky and I did. There is no apparent industry, there are no traffic signals, no stop signs (wait - there was one, no no, that was a yield sign) no shops, no lobster pounds, no gas stations, no McDonalds - just a sleepy little collection of a homes with a house here and a house there. I could spend about a month sitting on the town pier.