Kittery

Maine, United States
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Also known as: Piscataqua Plantation

Kittery, town, York county, southwestern Maine, U.S., at the mouth of the Piscataqua River, on the Atlantic coast opposite Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The town includes the communities of Kittery and Kittery Point. Settled in 1623, it was incorporated (1647) as Piscataqua Plantation, Maine’s first town, and was later renamed for the Champernowne family’s estate, Kittery Point, in Devon, England. It has been a shipbuilding centre since Revolutionary War times, and John Paul Jones’s Ranger, the first ship to fly the American flag, was launched there in 1777. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (1800), which from the mid-1950s to 1971 built nuclear ...(100 of 171 words)