Drinkwater Point Road is a prominent street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. One of the first streets laid out in what was then coastal

North Yarmouth North Yarmouth, officially the Town of North Yarmouth, is a town in Cumberland County, Maine. The population was 4,072 at the 2020 United States Census. It is part of the Portland– South Portland–Biddeford Metropolitan Statistical Area. ...

, Province of Massachusetts Bay (when it was centered around the nearby

Meetinghouse under the Ledge The Meetinghouse under the Ledge, also known as the Old Ledge Meetinghouse,

), it runs for about from

Gilman Road Gilman Road is a prominent street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It runs for about from Lafayette Street ( State Route 88) in the northwest to the Ellis C. Snodgrass Memorial Bridge at White's Cove in the southeast. At the bridge, whic ...

in the north to Seaborne Drive in the south. Drinkwater Point faces

Cousins Island Cousins Island is an island in Casco Bay within the town of Yarmouth in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. It is listed as a census-designated place, with a population of 490 as of the 2010 census. The CDP is part of the Portland– So ...

, to which it is connected by the

Ellis C. Snodgrass Memorial Bridge The Ellis C. Snodgrass Memorial Bridge is located in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It spans a section of inner Casco Bay, connecting the mainland, at Drinkwater Point, to Cousins Island Cousins Island is an island in Casco Bay within the to ...

, and overlooks inner Casco Bay. Drinkwater Point Road and Drinkwater Point are named for Captain

Theophilus Drinkwater Theophilus Drinkwater (October 28, 1792 – December 15, 1872) was an American sea captain in the first half of the 19th century. Life and career Drinkwater was born on October 28, 1792, in North Yarmouth, Massachusetts (now in Maine), to Alle ...

, son of Allen and Hannah Drinkwater. His house, built in 1791 by his grandfather, Nicholas, stood at the southern end. Theophilus was married to Louisa Drinkwater. They had three children — Cornelia Amanda, Hannah Gray and Ferdinand. Theophilus, Louisa, Cornelia and Ferdinand are buried in the nearby

Ledge Cemetery Ledge Cemetery, also known as the Cemetery under the Ledge,''Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society'', Maine Historical Society (1899), p. 76 is a historic cemetery in Yarmouth, Maine, Yarmouth, Maine, United States. Dating t ...

. Several other members of the notable seafaring Drinkwater family,Architectural Survey Yarmouth, ME (Phase One, September, 2018), p. 26
- Yarmouth's town website lived nearby, including Captain Joseph Drinkwater. Captain James Munroe Bucknam's 115-acre farm extended west to where Bucknam Point Road is today. His house, today's number 215, was built in 1740 and later became the main building of the Homewood Inn development, whose property extended to the north and west. Bucknam wed Caroline Pierce Drinkwater in 1843 and they had five children together — Nicholas, Clarence Leland, Caroline Augusta, Clarence Loraine and James M., Jr. They were married for 26 years, until 1869, Caroline's death. He married for a second time the following year, to Abbie Frances Twombly, with whom he had another two children — Caroline Prince Bucknam and Albion Levi."Genealogical and Family History of the STATE OF MAINE" - DunhamWilcox.net
/ref> Nine years after Abbie's death, he married for a third time, to Edna A. Marston, widow of William. Seaborne Drive and Channel Point Road appeared on a 1944 map of the town, as did Homewood Inn,1944 map of the area hosted on University of New Hampshire's servers
/ref> which attracted guests from 1912 to 1992.''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Hall, Alan M., Arcadia (2002) The

West Side Trail The West Side Trail is a multi-use trail in Yarmouth, Maine. A Town of Yarmouth project conceived in 1988 and opened in 2014, the trailhead for the eastern portion of the trail is in the parking lot of Tyler Technologies, on Tyler Drive, on the ea ...

crosses the road near its intersection with Gilman Road.

Notable buildings and structures

* Captain James Munroe Bucknam House (1740) * Homewood Inn (1912)

References

{{Streets of Yarmouth, Maine Streets in Yarmouth, Maine