Boothbay is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States.

It includes the neighborhoods of Back Narrows, Dover, Linekin, Oak Hill, Ocean Point, Spruce Shores, and the villages of East Boothbay and Trevett.

The surrounding Boothbay Region is a center of summer tourist activity, and a significant part of its population does not live there year-round.

[5] The first European presence in the region was an English fishing outpost called Cape Newagen in 1623.

An Englishman by the name of Henry Curtis purchased the right to settle Winnegance from the Abenaki Sachem Mowhotiwormet in 1666.

However, the English were driven from their settlements by the Abenaki in 1676 during King Philip's War.

[6] Colonel David Dunbar, governor of the Territory of Sagadahock, established a settlement called Townsend, after Lord Charles Townshend, in 1730, and convinced approximately 40 families of Scots-Irish Presbyterians, largely from the north of Ireland, to settle there.

It borders the towns of Edgecomb to the north, and Boothbay Harbor to the south.

Separated by water, it is near the towns of Westport to the west, and South Bristol to the east.

Of all households, 23.8% were made up of individuals, and 11.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.