Cow Island, Maine

Cow Island is a 26-acre (11 ha) island in Casco Bay, Maine, United States,^[1] off Great Diamond Island, about 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of downtown Portland, and is part of the Town of Long Island in Cumberland County. A non-profit youth development organization called Rippleffect owns the island and has the responsibility to protect the island's natural ecosystem as well as the island's public access. ^[2]

Fort Lyons

The remains of a 1907 military installment called Fort Lyons are located on the Rippleffect side. Rippleffect has converted these ruins into its core on-island facility, an eco-friendly campus where it runs human development programs^{[citation needed]} There are several other military installations scattered around the island, including, near the center of the island, a large pill-box under which are two tunnels that appear to have been used to store ammunition and supplies.^[3]

References

^ U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1879). Atlantic Local Coast Pilot. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 466.
^ Marnie MacLean (September 25, 2014). ""Ripple Effect" On Cow Island Teaches Kids Skills". WCSH6. WCSH6. Archived from the original on February 11, 2015. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
^ Rippleffect - Corporate Eco-Retreats Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine

43°41′30″N 70°11′10″W / 43.69167°N 70.18611°W / 43.69167; -70.18611

[1] U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1879). Atlantic Local Coast Pilot. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 466.

[2] Marnie MacLean (September 25, 2014). ""Ripple Effect" On Cow Island Teaches Kids Skills". WCSH6. WCSH6. Archived from the original on February 11, 2015. Retrieved February 10, 2015.

[3] Rippleffect - Corporate Eco-Retreats Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine

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Hancock	Bar Cranberry Isles Baker Bear Great Cranberry Little Cranberry Sutton Deer Isle Eagle Great Duck Great Spruce Head Little Deer Long Marshall Mount Desert Nautilus Porcupine Islands Spectacle Swan's Verona
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Waldo	Islesboro Sears Warren
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York	Badger's Boon Seavey's Isles of Shoals Appledore Smuttynose
^† Disputed between the United States and Canada.

Cow Island, Maine

Fort Lyons

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