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Eastport is a city and archipelago in Washington County, Maine, with a population of 1,288 at the 2020 census, making it the least-populous city in Maine.

Eastport is the easternmost city in the continental United States, on the southeasterly part of Moose Island, which is connected to the mainland by a causeway.

The native Passamaquoddy Tribe has called the Eastport area home for at least 10,000 years.

Moose Island was first settled in 1772 by James Cochrane of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Eastport was incorporated as a town on February 24, 1798, named for being the easternmost port in the United States.

Fort Sullivan was erected atop a village hill in 1809, but a British fleet captured it on July 11, 1814, during the War of 1812, and the town was returned to United States control in 1818, making Eastport the location most recently occupied by a foreign country in the contiguous United States.

In 1833, Eastport was the second largest trading port in the country after New York City, and by 1886 the town had 13 sardine factories employing about 800 men, women, and children.

Eastport became a city in 1893, but the fishing industry declined, the city went bankrupt in 1937, and the Groundhog Day Gale of 1976 destroyed many structures along the waterfront.

Eastport's population peaked at 5,311 in 1900 and has fallen more or less constantly since then to 1,288 at the 2020 census, and the city had 670 households at the 2010 census.

With tides of about 25 feet, Eastport's spacious harbor remains ice-free year round, and Old Sow, the largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere, sits on the international boundary between Eastport and Deer Island, New Brunswick.

Eastport hosts the largest Fourth of July celebration in Maine, with a grand parade, fireworks over the Bay of Fundy, and port calls by United States Navy and Coast Guard ships since 1905.