South Bristol is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,127 at the 2020 census. A fishing and resort area, South Bristol includes the villages of Walpole and Christmas Cove, the latter on Rutherford Island. The town has six nature preserves.
South Bristol Gut in 2022
View of South Bristol in 1908
Walpole Meeting House c. 1908
Steamboat landing in 1910
Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maine. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,237. Its seat is Wiscasset. The county was founded in 1760 by the Massachusetts General Court from a portion of York County, Massachusetts and named after the English city Lincoln, the birthplace of Massachusetts Bay Provincial Governor Thomas Pownall.
Pownalborough Courthouse
Boothbay Harbor
The Damariscotta River near the Whaleback Shell Midden State Historic Site