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Rockland ocean front community - Continued
A verymaine.com introduction to the
city of Rockland
(Click
here to Search Rockland Maine Real Estate)
Along with longtime residents and tourists, you’ll find
students of two of the most interesting schools in Maine
calling the Rockland ocean front their home. The
Penobscot School
is a unique language-learning environment welcoming mainly
adults from around the world. The one hitch? You must be
invited to attend. The
Apprenticeshop,
on the other hand, will take anyone, provided you have a
love of boatbuilding. Considered one of the oldest and
finest traditional boat building schools in the country, it
is possible to commission students to create a one-of-a-kind
wooden boat, provided you can afford it, and then launch it
from their Rockland ocean front location.
For those who enjoy the outdoors in winter, Rockland has
plenty to offer. Cross-country and downhill skiing,
snowshoeing and tubing are just minutes away at The
Camden
Snow Bowl ski area where the International Toboggan races
are hosted in February each year. Ice fishing, cross country
skiing, ice-skating and ice sailing are also easily
accessible in the region.
The most popular way to arrive in Rockland is by car as many
highways serve the Rockland ocean front community. The most popular, U.S. Route 1 runs
through the center of the town.
Knox Country Regional Airport, owned by the town of Rockland
until the late 1960s, offers commercial flights from US
Airways Express to Bangor, Bar Harbor and Boston along with
a bevy of charter planes, although the airport is mainly
used to get residents and tourists to the many nearby
islands in Penobscot Bay off the coast of Rockland's ocean
front. Those who fear the friendly skies
can also catch one of many ferries to the nearby islands.
While rail service made a return to Rockland in 2005
offering day trips during the tourist season there has been
talk for over a decade about extending Amtrak rail service,
which currently stops in Portland.
Rockland with just over 3,750 total housing units has the
largest number of such structures from all of the
communities in Knox County.
For the person who hates the cookie cutter residential
developments being created in the 21st century, Rockland can
be seen as something of an oasis. As a state, Maine has a
higher percentage (35%) of the housing stock that was built
prior to 1940 than any other state. According to 2000 Census
information, 58% of Rockland’s homes were constructed before
1940, or over 2,200 units. Considering that most of the new
development over the last 15 years has come in the form of
mobile homes, Rockland’s percentage of true stick-built
homes from before 1940 is much higher.
And while housing prices increased 51% from 1995 to 2002 in
Rockland, it is still the most affordable town in the county
to purchase a house. The average price of a home in Rockland
in 2002 was $172,273, up from $84,673 in 1995, but still low
compared to the average prices of homes in sister towns
Camden, Owl’s Head and Rockport, where the average home in
2002 was well over $400,000. Of course, if you were
looking to own a piece of Rockland ocean front property, the
price might just get a bit higher!
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