• Gain insight into how the Cove got its name from mica, an iridescent group of sheet silicate minerals, which forms naturally along the coast of Maine making the beaches appear to sparkle like diamonds.

• Discover how the now-Fort McKinley Historic District played a key role in the seacoast defense of the United States prior to World War II.

• Gaze at the idyllic Diamond Cove, a favored en plein air setting for landscape painter Charles Codman (1800–1842), who created dozens of images of Diamond Cove on Great Diamond Island.

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