Saint Croix Island International Historic Site

Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons

Samuel de Champlain

Though the 1604-05 French settlement on Saint Croix Island is the watershed moment in history that led to the founding of Saint Croix Island International Historic Site, the march of time continued. Learn more about the history of the area in the 19th and 20th centuries including industrialization.

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt found his perfect Christmas tree from a tiny island in Maine, just two days after Pearl Harbor.

Through a Request for Proposals (RFP), the McGlashan-Nickerson House is available for a long-term lease of up to 60 years on favorable terms. The lease will require that the lessee rehabilitate and preserve the building. These 360 images of the interior offer a glimpse of its condition and range of amenities, as of July 2020.

Dr. Bonnie Newsom, and graduate students Natalie Dana Lolar and Isaac St. John, carefully removed stone pieces, bone splinters, and baked clay fragments from their special archival plastic bags and spread them out on a table. They paused for a moment. Newsom, Lolar, and St. John are trained archaeologists and members of different Wabanaki tribes. They were the first Wabanaki people to see the objects since those who created them more than a thousand years ago.

You may be familiar with heat waves on land, but in a changing, warming world, heat waves are starting to become common in the ocean, too. These changes are bringing warmer currents into the area and, in turn, are shifting what animals we’re seeing inhabit the ocean waters around Acadia National Park. Come learn more about the changes that Acadia and other national parks are going through and what you can do to help.

During the first week of August 2017 the Northeast Region Archaeology Program (NRAP) joined staff and volunteers from Saint Croix Island International Historic Site (SACR) and Acadia National Park (ACAD) to conduct high resolution geophysical surveys across the actively eroding southern half of Saint Croix Island, the location of one of the earliest first French settlements in North America (1604).

Through a Request for Proposals (RFP), the McGlashan-Nickerson House is available for a long-term lease of up to 60 years on favorable terms. The lease will require that the lessee rehabilitate and preserve the building. These 360 images of the interior offer a glimpse of its condition and range of amenities, as of July 2020.

Please read our question of the month and feel free to answer. Visitors to the park leave their answers on our white board, but we wanted to make sure all visitors had a chance to answer. To answer call 207-454-3871 or email us. Some answers will make their way to this page!