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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 837 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EASTPORT , a See also:

city and See also:port of entry of See also:Washington See also:county, See also:Maine, U.S.A., co-extensive with See also:Moose See also:Island in See also:Passamaquoddy See also:Bay, about 190 m. E.N.E. of See also:Portland. Pop. (1890) 4908; (1900) 5311 (1554 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 4961. It is served by the Washington County railway, and by steamboat lines to See also:Boston, Portland and See also:Calais. It is the most eastern city of the See also:United States, and is separated from the mainland by a narrow channel, which is spanned by a See also:bridge. The See also:harbour is well protected from the winds, and the See also:tide, which rises and falls here about 25 ft., prevents it from being obstructed with See also:ice. The city is built on ground sloping gently to the See also:water's edge, and commands delightful views of the bay, in which there are several islands. Its See also:principal See also:industry is the See also:canning of sardines; there are also clam canneries. Shoes, See also:mustard, decorated See also:tin, and shooks are manufactured, and See also:fish and lobsters are shipped from here in the See also:season. The city is the port of entry for the customs See also:district of Passamaquoddy; in 1908 its imports were valued at $994,961, and its exports at $1,155,791. Eastport was first settled about 1782 by fishermen; it became a port of entry in 1790, was incorporated as a See also:town in 1798, and was chartered as a city in 1893.

It was a notorious See also:

place for See also:smuggling under the See also:Embargo Acts of 1807 and 18o8. On the 11th of See also:July 1814, during the See also:war of 1812, it was taken by the See also:British. As the British See also:government claimed the islands of Passamaquoddy Bay under the treaty of 1783, the British forces retained See also:possession of Eastport after the See also:close of the war and held it under See also:martial See also:law until July 1818, when it was surrendered in accordance with the decision rendered in See also:November 1817 by commissioners appointed under See also:Article IV. of the treaty of See also:Ghent (1814), this decision awarding Moose Island, See also:Dudley Island and See also:Frederick Island to the United States and the other islands, including the Island of See also:Grand Manan in the Bay of See also:Fundy, to See also:Great See also:Britain.

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