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Monhegan Island is a small island ten miles off the coast of Maine. It has long been a destination for artists, birders, other nature lovers, and tourists as well as the home of a small but thriving year-round community composed about equally of lobstermen and those who meet their needs and those of visitors.
In the 1950s, Theodore Edison, who summered there for many years, purchased about 300 acres of the undeveloped areas of this small island and formed an organization, Monhegan Associates, which is primarily a land trust, to protect the lands in perpetuity. In the past fifty years Monhegan Associates has acquired more land through gifts and purchases. At this point we own approximately 480 acres of land, comprising about two-thirds of the island. That land is not developed, except for many miles of hiking trails going through it, which are open to the public. Here’s our Mission Statement