Midcoast — Freeport, Brunswick & Bath

I-295 / US-1 / ME-24 / Amtrak Downeaster (Brunswick terminus)

The Midcoast region stretches north from Portland along US-1 and I-295 into Sagadahoc County. Anchored by **Freeport** (home to the L.L.Bean flagship store — the retailer's original location, open 24/7 — and a major outlet shopping destination), **Brunswick** (the largest town in the Midcoast, home to Bowdoin College — a highly selective liberal arts college founded 1794, notable alumni including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Franklin Pierce), **Bath** (the 'City of Ships' — home of Bath Iron Works, one of the largest shipbuilders in the US, building Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and other Navy vessels), **Harpswell** (a long, thin coastal town with multiple fingers of land including Bailey Island, Orrs Island, and Cundys Harbor), **Topsham** (across the Androscoggin from Brunswick), and Sagadahoc County's smaller towns: Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Arrowsic, Georgetown, Phippsburg, Richmond, West Bath, and Woolwich.