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Kittery

Maine, United States
Also known as: Piscataqua Plantation
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Kittery, town, York county, southwestern Maine, U.S., at the mouth of the Piscataqua River, on the Atlantic coast opposite Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The town includes the communities of Kittery and Kittery Point. Settled in 1623, it was incorporated (1647) as Piscataqua Plantation, Maine’s first town, and was later renamed for the Champernowne family’s estate, Kittery Point, in Devon, England. It has been a shipbuilding centre since Revolutionary War times, and John Paul Jones’s Ranger, the...

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