The Harborage Inn has been a Seaside Inn since 1925 and is Boothbay Harbor’s longest continuously operated Inn.

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The Harborage Inn was built in 1869 and became an operating Inn in 1925.  
 

Harborage (Har bor age) Noun: 1 (Nautical) Shelter & anchorage for ships. A place of refuge (as for a ship).

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Where can I get me harborage for the night? ~Tennyson

 

Currently Boothbay Harbor’s maritime use is predominately for recreation purposes, Boothbay Harbor was historically founded as a port for large fishing & Windjammer commerce boats with it’s large, deep & protected harbor. Also referred to as “A Small Bay of Fundy” due to its high vertical drop in tidal range – 9 to 12 feet (the tide ebbs and flows in our harbor every 6 hours as the ocean fills up the harbor and then empties completely) which perfectly shelters all boats docked in the harbor from the damaging waves of the North Atlantic.