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An exhausted farm became a “desert” attraction
A Maine farm lost its topsoil through nineteenth-century farming and sheep overgrazing, exposing sand underneath. Abandoned in 1890, it became a tourist attraction in 1925. Despite its name, the Desert of Maine is too wet to be a climatic desert.
The failed farm acquired a very different second life.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-10