Fort Point State Park occupies a one hundred fifty-six-acre headland at the eastern tip of Cape Jellison in Stockton Springs, Maine, overlooking Penobscot Bay. Known for its coastal scenery, hiking, picnicking, and fishing, it also preserves Fort Point Light and the remains of Fort Pownall. The site began as a French and Indian War fortification built in 1759 under Governor Thomas Pownall to protect English interests on the Penobscot River, though it never saw combat. After the British removed its guns in 1775, colonists destroyed the blockhouse and moat. A luxury hotel later rose there in 1872, failed, and burned in 1898 before the land became a state park in 1974.