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Bailey Island, Maine History, Genealogy and Trivia

The shipwreck of the schooner Helen Eliza, driven ashore west of Bailey Island in 1869, inspired Longfellow's poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus."


Maine's oldest saltwater fishing tournament is the Bailey Island Tuna Tournament, held each July.


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