Presidential Visits

President Kennedy at the wheel of the US Coast Guard Yacht "Manitou,. Boothbay Harbor, August 12, 1962

Presidents of the United States visit many states during their tenures. Maine is no exception. Sometime in 1789 George Washington visited Kittery on a fishing trip. In 1841, recently elected President William Henry Harrison visited Bath and the Clark  and Sewall shipyard, where he witnessed the launch of the Rappahannock, at the time the largest…