About a year after the Mayflower arrived in the New
World, Colonel William Beal came to America on the Fortune. He soon settled in the area of Jonesport and
Beals Island. The quaint area of Jonesport and Beals, on the northern section of Maine's shoreline, became a summer haven for many families in northern Maine and remains a summer resort area today. Jonesport's livelihood still relies on fishing and sardine packing, as it did over 100 years...