During the War of 1812, British forces under Captain Sir Thomas Hardy and Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Pilkington seized Moose Island while taking control of the entire Maine coast from Penobscot Bay to the St. Croix River.
Part of this project involved construction of a tidal barrage between Moose Island and Pleasant Point to contain the waters of Cobscook Bay, resulting in the present-day causeway carrying Maine State Route 190 and the abandoned Maine Central Railroad.
Author Hampton Sides states: "The time of Carleton's youth was a fragile period in the history of eastern Maine.
During the War of 1812, British forces had occupied most of Maine east of the Penobscot River and annexed the territory to New Brunswick....Some have speculated that it was Carleton's memory of this unpleasant experience from his adolescence—of his family having to endure a bitter, protracted, worrisome dispute along what amounted to a wild frontier—that gave him later in life such an urgent impatience to solve the Navajo problem with clean, stark finality.
"[2] "Moose Island, Maine" was the fictional location where Jimmy Olsen's Aunt Louisa lived in the first season, second episode of "Adventures of Superman" which originally aired on September 26, 1952.