Hope Island (Maine)

It is a part of the Town of Chebeague Island, in Cumberland County.

[1][2] Developer John Cacoulidis and his wife Phyllis bought the island in 1993.

ft. house built in 1913 with nine bedrooms, seven bathrooms and five fireplaces, the Cacoulidises built there a separate 3,300-square-foot guest house, a boathouse with an apartment, and roads looping the island.

They've also erected horse stables, a chicken coop, a garage and their own church, and for access both a boat dock and a helicopter pad.

[3][4] In a dispute over property taxes, the two part-time residents attempted but failed in a legislative effort to secede from the town of Cumberland.