Brown's Point is a promontory in
Yarmouth, Maine
Yarmouth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, twelve miles north of the state's largest city, Portland. When originally settled in 1636, as North Yarmouth, it was part of Massachusetts, and remained as such for 213 years. In 1849, ...
, United States. It is located around southeast of Yarmouth Village at the confluence of
Cousins River
The Cousins River ( Native American: ''Sisquisic'') is a , primarily tidal river in southern Maine. Rising in the town of Freeport at the junction of Harvey Brook and Merrill Brook, it flows south and forms, for most of its course, the boundary be ...
, to the north, and
Royal River
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, to the south. It sits across Cousins River from Powell Point and across Royal River from
Callen Point
Callen Point is a promontory in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It is located east-southeast of Yarmouth Village, on the southern banks of the Royal River, east of Larrabee's Landing and near the river's confluence with Casco Bay.
It was an imp ...
. The point is accessible via Bayview Street.
The land was originally owned by English settler
William Royall in the 16th century. Some of Royall's land was later transferred to Moses Brown, a farmer in whose family it remained for over three hundred years.
[''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Hall, Alan M., Arcadia (2002)] The Browns' farmland was sold off in 1977, creating the Brown's Point Road development.
Mary Estelle Blake (1920–2017) was the last of the Brown family to live on the point.
The Bay View Farm Inn and Cottages stood on the point in the early 20th century.
[''The Yarmouth History Center Newsletter''](_blank)
Spring 2016, Yarmouth Historical Society It burned down in 2008.
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Landforms of Yarmouth, Maine