| Maine | |
| Category: | U.S. State |
| Continent: | North America |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Locale: | New England |
| Points of interest: | Augusta; Bangor; Castle Rock; Collinsport; Haven; Jerusalem's Lot; Portland; Rockport; Storybrooke |
| Notable apperances: | Dark Shadows; Haven |
Points of Interest
- Bangor
- Bangor is a city in the US state of Maine. It is located in Penobscot County and is the major commercial and cultural center for eastern and northern Maine. Bangor, Maine has been referenced numerous times in the original Dark Shadows television series, but has only made a few appearances. Roger Collins frequently took on extended business trips to Bangor (thus explaining why the actor wasn't on the show during cast rotations). Bangor was located approximately fifty miles from the fictional town of Collinsport, which was the provincial setting for the series. Bangor held special significance to the history of the character of Victoria Winters. [1]
- Castle Lake
- Castle Lake is located in Castle Rock and lies at the bed of a large cliff. In 1991, Martin Deaver - a church leader fell from cliff and broke his back under mysterious circumstances. He died days later. His young adopted son, Henry Deaver, went missing for eleven days in December and was found on the cliff overlooking the lake by Sheriff Alan Pangborn. In 2018, Dale Lacy - the warden of Shawshank Prison committed suicide by tying a noose around his neck and driving his car off the cliff into the lake, which resulted in his decapitation.
- Castle Rock
- Castle Rock is a small, idyllic coastal hamlet in the Eastern region of Castle County. For several decades it has played host to many strange and mysterious occurrences, some of which range into the realms of the supernatural. A young coma victim named Johnny Miller awakened with the gift of prophetic vision which he used to aid the police solve murders. A St. Bernard became rabid after being bitten by a rabbit and terrorized a mother and her young son. A writer named Thad Beaumont from the neighboring town of Ludlow suffered a "Jekyll & Hyde" effect and began committing murders. The Devil himself came to Castle Rock in the guise of an antiquities dealers named Leland Gaunt and used his influence to get the townsfolk to turn against one another committing acts of vandalism and even murder.
- Collinsport
- Collinsport is a fictional city and the principal setting of the 1966-1971 gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. Located in Northeast Maine, Collinsport is a fishing community and nearly everyone who lives in the village is in some way employed by Collins Cannery. Collinsport was founded in the late 17th century by Isaac Collins, the earliest known member of the Collins family line, who established the town's industry as well as an expanding fishing fleet. Isaac's descendents became the most powerful family in Collinsport in the intervening centuries and continued to run the cannery and fishing fleet even as late as the 1970s. In later years, Collinsport also became known as an artists colony, attracting struggling painters and sculptors such as Sam Evans.
- Haven
- The town of Haven is located in the New England state of Maine. It is unique from other such towns in that it has been routinely plagued by a series of inexplicable supernatural phenomena that the residents have taken to calling "the troubles". The origin of the troubles is a mysterious one, but it all seems tied in to an incident from several years ago involving the "Colorado Kid", Duke Crocker. In 2010, the FBI sent Special Agent Audrey Parker to Haven to hunt down an escaped prisoner. She met police officer Nathan Wuornos, who was the son of the town's police chief. Within short order, Parker's life became intertwined with the strange occurances taking place in Haven.
- Jerusalem's Lot
- Founded in Maine territory in 1765, its name is derived from a colonist named Charles Belknap Tanner, who owned a pig named Jerusalem, who was known to gravitate towards a wood lot. The story of Tanner's pig circulated enough that people began calling the town Jerusalem's Lot, which later became shortened to 'Salem's Lot. Since its inception, the area surrounding Jerusalem's Lot has been a focal point for dark metaphysical occurrences, relating to ancient and powerful beings.
- Portland
- Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. Portland was founded as a territory in 1633 and became an incorporated city on July 4th, 1786.
- Rockport
- Rockport is a town located in Knox County, Maine. On the TV series Dark Shadows, this was where the Worthington Hall boarding school was located and administrated by Gregory and Minerva Trask in the year 1897.