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    Mahar's Point, Pembroke Maine

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    Mahar's Point on the tip of Leightons Neck, had been the location of a Native American encampment for nearly 9000 years when Edmund Mahar settled here at the time of the American Revolution. The Reversing Falls change direction twice daily as the waters of the Dennys River join tidal flow of Cobscook Bay. A family cemetery still memorializes those who make their living in these rich but dangerous waters.

    Wabanaki Encampment at the Reversing Falls.

    Mahar's Point, Pembroke, Maine; View of the field where Edmund Mahar settled in the 1770's on the end of Leighton's Neck, where the waters of Dennys River flow into Cobscook Bay through the Reversing Falls.
    The Reversing Falls seen from Mahar's Point; Water surges through the channel between Mahar's Point and Falls Island in this image of the Reversing Falls, called in Passamaquoddy Kapskuk, meaning Mahar family gravestone; One of several stones in a small family cemetery at the tip of Mahar's Point, in memory of George L Mahar and his infant daughter Eliza, who died on December 24, 1858, at age 13 months. Ancient Wabanaki campsite at the Reversing Falls.; Shell heaps, stone tools, and other domestic remains attest to the presence of Indigenous people at sites here and around Cobscook Bay, The name Gravestone at Mahar's Point; A recent memorial to the crew of a fishing boat that went down in Cobscook Bay in 2009.