Scarborough Marsh in Scarborough, Maine

Scarborough Marsh looks like a simple place ruled by tides and birds. But a deeper story lies just beneath the surface of the water. Across Pine Point Road from the Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center, a short trail follows an abandoned road toward the marsh. Part of it runs alongside the remains of a canal dug during the American Revolution, built to hide ships from the British. That canal is just one part of a much longer story. Indigenous people hunted and trapped the marsh long before European settlers arrived. Once they did, salt hay was cut for livestock and stretches of the marsh doubled a

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