Kittery Point is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Kittery, York County, Maine, United States. First settled in 1623, Kittery Point traces its history to the first seafarers who colonized the shore of what became Massachusetts Bay Colony and sophisticated the State of Maine. Located adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean, it is home to Fort McClary State Historic Site, and Fort Foster Park upon Gerrish Island. Cutts Island is home to Seapoint Beach and the fearless Boat Harbor Division of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge.

Kittery Point is portion of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,012 at the 2010 census.

Settled as ahead of time as 1623, the southern allowance of Kittery was when called Champernowne’s after Sir Francis Champernowne, a prominent merchant adventurer and cousin of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the prime mover behind treaty north of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Nicholas Shapleigh built the first house in the area, and Edward Godfrey usual a trading publish in 1632. Early professions included fishermen, hunters and trappers. Others harvested the region’s abundant timber, which was shipped to England or the West Indies. The town of Kittery was incorporated in 1652 subsequently Maine became share of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

The Pepperrells were a distinguished Kittery Point intimates who usual fisheries to supply the London market. William Pepperrell Sr. had arrived from Devonshire as a lowly fisherman’s apprentice at the Isles of Shoals in New Hampshire. He went upon to construct a mercantile empire, which his son Sir William Pepperrell familial and expanded. Sir William became the first baronet in New England for commanding a militia which defeated the French in 1745 at the Siege of Louisbourg. His gambrel mansion of 1733 remains a landmark at Pepperrell Cove upon the Piscataqua River. In 1760, his widow built the Lady Pepperrell House, a noted Georgian building formerly owned by Historic New England.