The Town of Eastmouth

*This is a snapshot of the town in the 2010’s, not to be confused with the 1960’s iteration found in the Eastmouth Podcast*

Eastmouth is a small town in Maine, located about 30 miles south of Eastport in Washington County, Maine. The area was originally, and still is, inhabited by the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians. Eastport has an airport: Eastport Municipal Airport.

Police services are provided by the Sheriff’s office of Washington County, as the town is too small to have its own police department.

Eastmouth has two cemeteries – one is the Catholic cemetery of  St. Gabriels, the other is a non-denominational cemetery located to the southeast of the docks.

The town has a lighthouse that stands 62 feet tall.

There is a street intersecting Main street called “The Burns” due to a local legend that the street caught fire due to street racers in the 1980’s.

Various businesses and government facilities in Eastmouth:

• Hornes’ Book Shoppe – this is where Ellie works
• Cuppa’ Joe Coffee shop – this is where Jason works.
• Noodle Time – the chinese restaurant
• Slice of Life – the pizza restaurant
• Pinhead – the bowling alley
• Computer Repair Shop – town’s computer sales and repair run by Max
• The Renaissance – town movie theater
• John Mason High – the high school attended by Jason and Ellie
• Eastmouth Library – town municipal library
• Firehouse – the town volunteer fire department
• Eastmouth Tribune – the town newspaper
• Angel’s View Clinic – town medical clinic
• Tharkham Mental Asylum – town facility that serves northeastern Maine
• Town docks – lobster and fishing boats
• The Pegleg – a bar serving fishermen
• Lorelei – a bar serving fisherman
• The Porthole – a bar on main street
• The Silver Spoon – a restaurant on main street serving food from local farms along with seafood from the docks
• Eastmouth Ventures – a lobster and fish packing facility; lobsters are held in individual cells in vast tanks and kept alive for shipment, whereas fish are processed to be shipped frozen across the United States
• Sarah’s Bikes – town bicycle shop, selling bikes and doing bike repair
• Unusual Instruments – town music stores, sells CD’s, old records, and musical instruments. Susan works here.
• Rose’s Stables and Firing Range – horses available for rent, provides stables for horses owned by townspeople; and has a Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) supported firing range for both pistols and rifles. Also has an archery range.
• Oak Creek Lutheran Church – one of the Eastmouth churches
• Saint Gabriels – the Eastmouth Catholic church
• Christian New Life Church – the Eastmouth charismatic church
• Sylvia’s Flowers – a quaint flower shop on Hawthorne Avenue
• Fix-It Hardware – Eastmouth’s primary hardware emporium
• Gerald’s Gasoline – the rustic gas station that services all of Eastmouth’s citizens

The high school provides services for not only the town of Eastmouth, but also to surrounding smaller communities, such as Roque Bluffs, Marshfield, and Wesley.