Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in York Harbor, ME

York Harbor is a census-designated place in the town of York in York County, Maine, with a population of 3,132 at the 2020 census and 1,321 households.

York Harbor is a distinguished former Gilded Age summer colony noted for its resort architecture, and it is part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The York Harbor CDP extends westward to include all of York Village, with U.S. Route 1 as its western boundary, the York River to the south, and the Gulf of Maine forming its eastern edge.

In the 18th century York Harbor, then known as Lower Town, was a prosperous seaport lined with wharves and warehouses, and the tongue of land at the mouth of the York River was called Gallows Point.

After the Civil War, lawyer Nathaniel Grant Marshall bought Stage Neck, razed the fishermen's shacks, and in 1871 built the grand Marshall House hotel, renaming Lower Town as York Harbor.

The Marshall House accommodated 325 guests by 1900, and when it burned in 1916 it was rebuilt in fire-resistant brick the following year to designs by noted Portland architect John Calvin Stevens.

The York Harbor and Beach Railroad opened in 1887, bringing summer visitors from Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, many of whom built Shingle Style summer mansions during the 1880-1890 boom.

In 1908 York Harbor proposed seceding from York, first as a new town called Yorktown and then as Gorges, but the split failed because it would have taken the town hall and much of York's real value.

The Cliff Walk, an ancient shoreline path lined with beach roses, winds along the Eastern Point ledges above the surf in York Harbor.

Notable buildings in York Harbor include the Lancaster Building, built in 1895, Trinity Episcopal Church, built in 1908 and designed by H. J. Hardenbergh, and the York Harbor Reading Room, built in 1910.