UMaine's program at Tanglewood 4-H Camp is a community where laughter and fun, adventure, respect for others, safety, sustainable living and environmental education combine to inspire in campers a sense of wonder and awareness of the natural world.
Williwaw Adventures: Unique adventures for teenagers combining sailing, back-country travel, paddling & surfing.
Fair Haven Camps continues to offer quality, purposeful, Christian summer camping experiences to young people from Maine and beyond. We empower boys and girls from grade school through the teen years and from various backgrounds with the truth that centers on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our summer camp staff works with all campers on their level in discussing important issues of life in cabin devotional times and our high quality guest speakers encourage and motivate our young people during chapel sessions happening daily. We challenge the young people from Maine and beyond that enter our doors as summer campers to become spiritually, socially, mentally, and physically healthy and to become responsible leaders, with creative thinking, self-motivation, and healthy relationships.
The area was once territory of the Penobscot tribe of Abenaki Indians, which each summer visited the seashore to hunt for fish, shellfish and seafowl. In 1630, it became part of the Muscongus Patent, which granted rights for English trading posts with the Indians, especially for the lucrative fur trade. About 1720, General Samuel Waldo of Boston bought the Muscongus Patent, which had evolved into outright ownership of the land, and was thereafter known as the Waldo Patent. Waldo died in 1759, and his heirs would sell the plantation of Passagassawakeag to 35 Scots-Irish proprietors from Londonderry, New Hampshire. Renamed Belfast after Belfast, Northern Ireland, it was first settled in 1770, and incorporated as a town in 1773. The village was mostly abandoned during the Revolution while British forces occupied Bagaduce . The British military burned Belfast in 1779, then held it for five days in September 1814 during the War of 1812. Following the war, the seaport rebuilt and thrived. It was a port of entry, and designated county seat of Waldo County in 1827, although land would be set off in 1845 to form part of Searsport. Belfast was incorporated in 1853 as a city, the 8th in Maine.