Port Clyde, Maine

Port Clyde is the southernmost settlement on the St. George peninsula in central/coastal Maine and part of the town of St. George in Knox County, Maine, United States.

[1] In the 19th century, Port Clyde became a busy port featuring granite quarries, tide mills for sawing timber, and shipbuilding and fish canning businesses.

[2] The Country of the Pointed Firs was written by Sarah Orne Jewett in St.

This lighthouse is the one to which Tom Hanks ran in the 1994 film Forrest Gump.

[4] An overnight fire on September 27–28, 2023, destroyed the settlement's general store, the Maine Wyeth Art Gallery, a restaurant, and offices of the local boat line.