Curtis Island (Maine)

Curtis Island is an island located in the exterior of Camden Harbor, in Camden, Maine, United States. The island received its name in 1934 after Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, a long time resident and benefactor of Camden.^[1]

There is a lighthouse and caretaker's house on the southwestern point of the island.^[2] There are two paths around either side of the island and one open grassy path down the middle. The island light is depicted in the Fitz Henry Lane painting Lighthouse at Camden, Maine.

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^ McLane, Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast Vol. I at p. 124
^ Curtis Island Maine Office of Tourism

44°12′07″N 69°02′59″W / 44.20194°N 69.04972°W / 44.20194; -69.04972

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[1] McLane, Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast Vol. I at p. 124

[2] Curtis Island Maine Office of Tourism

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v t e Islands of Maine
Cumberland	Bailey Bustins Cliff Cousins Cow Cushing Dingley Eagle Frye Great Chebeague Great Diamond Hog Hope House Jewell Little Chebeague Little Diamond Littlejohn Long Mackworth Orr's Peaks Ragged Sebascodegan
Hancock	Bar Cranberry Isles Baker Bear Great Cranberry Little Cranberry Sutton Deer Isle Eagle Great Duck Great Spruce Head Little Deer Long Marshall Mount Desert Nautilus Porcupine Islands Spectacle Swan's Verona
Knox	Allen Criehaven Curtis Eastern Egg Rock Franklin Isle au Haut Lane's Matinicus Metinic North Haven Seal Two Bush Vinalhaven Whitehead
Lincoln	Burnt the Cuckolds Damariscove Hog Louds Manana Monhegan Squirrel Westport Witch
Piscataquis	Gero Sugar
Sagadahoc	Arrowsic Harbor Malaga Pond Swan
Waldo	Islesboro Sears Warren
Washington	Birch Islands Cross Great Wass Machias Seal^† Moose North Rock^† Saint Croix
York	Badger's Boon Seavey's Isles of Shoals Appledore Smuttynose
^† Disputed between the United States and Canada.

Curtis Island (Maine)

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