Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
7 places in town are on the National Register, among them three historic districts with 7 buildings between them. Below: 5 old photos and papers from 1889 on.
The Winter Harbor post office opened in 1851, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. Boundary changes and added documentation are counted with their listing.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Winter Harbor.
Winter Harbor was raided various times by French and natives during Queen Anne's War. A United States Navy radio communications station operated here during World War II.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltWinter Harbor Light Station is builtBuiltEgg Rock Light Station is built
In the archiveWinter Harbor - Winter Harbor Land Co.'s property 1889
In the archiveLobster fishing industry near Grindstone InnBuiltU.S. Naval Radio Station-Apartment Building and Power House is built
In the archiveSchoodic Scenic Byway - Black Dike at Schoodic Head3 decades in the archive, from the 1880s to the 1990s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Winter Harbor’s page.
Retake this view · +15Winter Harbor’s post office has been open since 1851.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Winter Harbor post office opened in 1851, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
7 listings: 4 buildings and 3 historic districts, the Egg Rock Light Station, the Winter Harbor Light Station and the Schoodic Peninsula Historic District, with 7 contributing buildings. 11 historic buildings in all.
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 (5), the Library of Congress (1), the National Register of Historic Places (7), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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