Castine

Castine, historic resort town, Hancock county, southern Maine, U.S., on a promontory in Penobscot Bay, across the water from Belfast (west). For 200 years the place held a key position in the struggle between England and France—and to a lesser extent the Netherlands—for control of the Acadian seaboard. In 1613 the French constructed a trading post (later Fort Pentagoet) at the site. A trading post for the Plymouth colony also was built there, in 1626,...