Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Kittery Point, ME

Kittery Point is a census-designated place in the town of Kittery in York County, Maine, with a population of 1,009 at the 2020 census.

The CDP covers 2.57 square miles, of which 1.91 square miles are land, and its ZIP code is 03905.

First settled in 1623, Kittery Point traces its history to the first seafarers who colonized the shore of what became Massachusetts Bay Colony and later the State of Maine.

The southern part of Kittery was once called Champernowne's, after Sir Francis Champernowne, a merchant adventurer and cousin of Sir Ferdinando Gorges.

Nicholas Shapleigh built the first house in the area, and Edward Godfrey established a trading post in 1632; the town of Kittery was incorporated in 1652.

The Pepperrells were a distinguished Kittery Point family who built fisheries to supply the London market, and Sir William Pepperrell became the first baronet in New England for commanding the militia that defeated the French at the Siege of Louisbourg in 1745.

Sir William's gambrel mansion of 1733 remains a landmark at Pepperrell Cove on the Piscataqua River, and his widow built the Lady Pepperrell House, a noted Georgian building, in 1760.

The John Bray House, built by a shipwright in 1662, is considered the oldest surviving house in Maine.

Fort McClary, a Portsmouth Harbor defense on land once owned by Sir William Pepperrell, is today the Fort McClary State Historic Site and features a blockhouse dating from 1844; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

Fort Foster Park, on Gerrish Island, occupies 92 acres that were once a federal coastal defense, and offers views of Portsmouth Harbor, Whaleback Lighthouse and the Isles of Shoals.