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Keywords: Quoddy Dam
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Item 27600
Title: Quoddy Tidal Power Project dam, Lubec, ca. 1937
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society
Date: circa 1937
Location: Lubec; Eastport
Media: Photographic postcard
Item 23678
Title: Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day at Quoddy Village, 1941
Contributed by: National Archives at Boston
Date: 1941-06-22
Location: Eastport
Media: Ink on paper
Item 25819
Title: Camp Lee Stephenson, Eastport, ca. 1944
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1944
Location: Eastport
Media: Postcard
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The Unfulfilled Dream of Tidal Power
Dexter Cooper, a young engineer, devoted much of his energy and personal finances to a plan to harness the tides in Cobscook and Passamaquoddy bays to generate electricity. While the plan was technically feasible, political and other considerations stopped its development in 1936.