Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
6 places in town are on the National Register. Below: old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cape Neddick’s history is told.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Cape Neddick.
Before 1655 Cape Neddick was inhabited by John Gooch, Peter Weare, Edward Wanton, Sylvester Stover and Thomas Wheelwright and their families.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Cape Neddick, cut from the printed page as they were published.
" As early as 1699 I find a record of a country road from Wells through Cape Neddick and our village to Berwick, with town ways connecting with and leading from this ' country road,' one of which was the town way leading from the village across the creek known as Meeting-House Creek. The record says, ' And the town way turns out of the country road by the buryiug-place (our old cemetery), and so to the meeting-house, and from thence to the creek
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
In half an hour after the arrival of these troops the garrison was furiously beset by Moxus and two hundred Indians. Being repulsed, they presently withdrew, and proceeded to Cape Neddick, in York. Here they attacked a vessel and killed a greater part of the crew, set the little hamlet on fire, and then scattered in difierent directions.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
2009
2009
2009
2008
2005
2005