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[[Image:Four Flags antique shop, Castine, ME IMG 2367.JPG|200px|right|thumb|Four Flags gift shop in Castine]]

 

 

Castine has a number of historic sites and parks (including the ruins of British earthworks at Fort George), a deep water harbor (with tie-ups for small boats beyond the current of the Penobscot and Bagaduce rivers), a non-exclusive club offering golf, tennis and yachting facilities, restaurants, and four churches ([[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]], [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]], [[Congregational]] and [[Unitarian Universalist]]). In addition, the town has a public library, an historical society, and the [[Wilson Museum]], an institution featuring exhibits of anthropological, natural and local artifacts. Castine's streets are lined with Federal, Greek Revival, [[Cape Cod (house)|Cape Cod]] and other antique style houses, and shaded by large [[elm]]s which are replaced with [[Dutch elm disease|disease-resistant]] strains when they succumb. The Castine Post Office is in one of the oldest Post Office buildings in continuous operation in the United States. The Federal government began leasing the building (built in 1817) in 1833 and later purchased the building. In 1869 the building was renovated to accommodate the Castine Post Office.<ref>USPS Historian's Office, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, Washington DC</ref><ref name="History of Castine, Maine"/>

* [[Deborah Joy Corey]], author

* [[Carl Ferdinand Cori]], biochemist {{Citation needed|date=June 2010}}

* [[Molly Dewson]], activist, feminist, America's first female political boss<ref>Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics</ref>

* [[Germain Doucet]], military officer