Broad Cove is a prominent cove in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It is around 1.15 miles (1.85 km) across at its widest point, its confluence with the waters of inner Casco Bay. It sits between Sunset Point, at the southern end of Yarmouth, and the eastern edge of Cumberland Foreside. State Route 88 (formerly the Atlantic Highway) runs beside the cove (as Foreside Road south of the Yarmouth line and Lafayette Street beyond it).

Broad Cove
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Looking southwest from Yarmouth's Ledge Cemetery to the northern tip of Broad Cove
Coordinates: 43.76288587°N 70.187375206°W / 43.76288587; -70.187375206
Country	United States
State	Maine
County	Cumberland
Towns	Yarmouth and Cumberland Foreside
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)

History

In 1643, Englishman George Felt, who came to what was then North Yarmouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, from Charlestown, Boston, eleven years earlier, purchased 300 acres (120 ha) in Broad Cove from Welshman John Phillips.[1]

Later in the 17th century, Walter Gendall's farm incorporated the western end of the cove, at Duck Cove.[1][2][3]

Panoramic view of Broad Cove from the town landing at today's Broad Cove Reserve in Cumberland Foreside. The stacks of Wyman Station, on Cousins Island, is in view straight ahead

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