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The Desert of Maine
1919
Freeport, Maine
AverageEstoniaEnthusiast · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A forty-acre spread of rolling dunes in the middle of Freeport's pine woods: glacial silt exposed when a nineteenth-century farm overgrazed and eroded its topsoil clean off. The family gave up in 1919 and the desert became one of Maine's oldest roadside attractions, minutes from the L.L.Bean flagship. It is not technically a desert, it rains constantly, and the sand keeps slowly swallowing the trees at the edges anyway.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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