Eastport
a city and port of entry in Washington co., Me., on Moose Island, in Pa empties the St. Croix river, the national Passamaquoddy Bay, into which boundary between the United States and British America; and on the Washington County railroad; 190 miles E. N. E. of Portland. It is the N. E. frontier city of the United States, and has a fine harbor, with daily steamship service with Boston, Calais, and Portland. The city has extensive fishing and shipbuilding interests, a sardine packing establishment with 20 factories, public high school and library, banks and weekly newspapers.
Pop. (1910) 4,961; (1920) 4,494.
EAST PROVIDENCE, a town of Rhode Island, in Providence co. It is on EAST PROVIDENCE, a town of the New York, New Haven and Hart, ford railroad, and on the Seekonk river, which separates it from Providence. Its industries include chemical, electrical, (1920) 21,793. and wire works. Pop. (1910) 15,808;