Editing North Haven, Maine (section)

===Summer colony===
In the 1880s, the island was discovered by "rusticators", seasonal residents first from Boston, then a decade or two later from [[New York City, New York|New York]] and [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]]. North Haven is best known today for its sizable [[summer colony]] of prominent northeasterners, particularly [[Boston Brahmins]], drawn to the island for over a century to savor its simple way of life.<ref name="northhavenmaine.org"/> Among the more notable summer residents was the impressionist painter [[Frank Weston Benson]], who rented the Wooster Farm as a summer home and painted several notable canvases set on the island.<ref name="CalmMorning">{{cite web |title=Calm Morning |url=https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/calm-morning-34740 |website=Museum of Fine Arts Boston |access-date=September 13, 2018}}</ref>

The southern side of the Fox Islands Thoroughfare is often informally considered part of North Haven, since Vinalhaven's north shore is nearly a dozen miles from that community's town center. In contrast to Vinalhaven, North Haven's economy relies less on the lobster industry and more on sustaining its summer resort community. Energy for the community is partially provided by the wind project in Vinalhaven through the [[Fox Island Electric Cooperative]].<ref name="Borst">Borst, Alan. [http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/mar10/mar10.pdf Community Wind: Maine island community lowering energy costs with wind-power project.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407221853/http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/mar10/mar10.pdf |date=April 7, 2010 }} ''[[Rural Cooperatives]].'' March/April 2010.</ref> Although the island is a popular destination, it actually provides few tourist amenities—two inns, a grocery store, two seasonal restaurants, a pizza shop, and two gift shops—and is instead geared toward those with vacation homes on the island.

A small population of [[Mouflon]] sheep (native to Europe and western Asia) escaped from an animal enclosure owned by [[Thomas Watson, Jr.]] on the island in the 1990s and some of the original population survives today.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://biography.yourdictionary.com/thomas-j-watson-jr |title=Thomas J. Watson, Jr Facts |publisher= Encyclopedia of World Biography. The Gale Group, Inc.|access-date=September 24, 2015}}</ref>