Historical Society of Wells and Ogunquit

The Historical Society of Wells and Ogunquit, part of the historical landscape of the towns since 1954, is headquartered at the 1862 Meetinghouse on Route One in Wells with the soaring steeple seen for miles from land and sea. Our Meetinghouse Museum collection of objects and artifacts tells the story of Wells and Ogunquit, which began as one town in 1640. Our research library has one of the finest historical and genealogical collections in southern Maine. The building is on the National Register of Historical Places, and a meetinghouse has been on this site since the mid-1600s, when the first settlers came to Wells, Maine.