York Maine Real Estate
"The Yorks"
- Location: York County along the Southern Maine Coastline
- Distances: 45 minutes south of Portland (44 miles), 1 hour 15 minutes north of Boston
- Area Size: 57.7 square miles, 2.8 square miles of this is waterfront, with a total of 4.82% of the town being water
During the summer months, tourists by the thousands, chiefly families, visit Short Sands Beach, which is in York Beach itself, and Long Sands Beach, more than a mile of smooth sand between York Beach and York Harbor. Long Sands Beach is York's longest beach. During the warm summer months visitors pack the beach. Surfing is a popular activity at Long Sands Beach, but is restricted to "surf zones" during the busy summer months.
Many spots in the Yorks have picturesque views of the historic Cape Neddick Light at Nubble Rock, which has figured in artists' work as well as souvenirs of the Maine coast.
York Harbor consists of some of York's most historic homes. This wealthy neighborhood of year-round residents is built of large estates. Here visitors can take sailing lessons, or take an ocean cruise. York Harbor Beach is a quiet, short stretch of sand nestled between U.S. Route 1A and The Stage Neck Inn. A bathhouse is availiable
The plantation of Agamenticus (or Acomenticus), now the town of York, was established on March 25, 1636 and incorporated as a city on April 10, 1641. The name is from the Abnaki meaning small river other side of island. A Native American returning from the sea would find what is now the York River as the smaller one on the other side of an island from the larger Piscataqua River.
Sir Fernando Gorges in 1641 immodestly named the capital city of his province Gorgeana. The town of York, was incorporated on November 22, 1652 from a portion of that city and is the second oldest town in Maine. The oldest is Kittery incorporated only two days earlier.
Most of the town's inhabitants are located between U.S. Route 1 (inland) and U.S. Route 1A which runs along the coast. Its population has more than doubled in the past thirty years, and grew by nearly 31 percent between 1990 and 2000.
- 1996: 110 buildings, average cost: $128,900
- 1997: 117 buildings, average cost: $133,600
- 1998: 151 buildings, average cost: $135,800
- 1999: 154 buildings, average cost: $132,600
- 2000: 121 buildings, average cost: $171,300
- 2001: 57 buildings, average cost: $193,500
- 2002: 70 buildings, average cost: $188,100
- 2003: 72 buildings, average cost: $179,100
- 2004: 70 buildings, average cost: $180,800
- 2005: 66 buildings, average cost: $180,400
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