Thomas King Inscription

	Thomas King Inscription
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Cushing, Maine
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	1605
Built by	King, Thomas
NRHP reference No.	79000152
Added to NRHP	May 7, 1979

The Thomas King Inscription is an artifact of the early exploration of the coast of the U.S. state of Maine. It consists of the carving by Thomas King of his name and the year 1605 on a rock above the tide line in Davis Cove, an inlet on the southern coastline of Cushing, Maine.^[2]^[3] King was a boatswain on the 1605 expedition of George Weymouth, which explored the area in search of the Northwest Passage to India.

The inscription site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Timeline of history". Town of Cushing. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
^ Weidensaul, Scott (2012). The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 16. ISBN 9780151015153.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] "Timeline of history". Town of Cushing. Retrieved April 10, 2016.

[3] Weidensaul, Scott (2012). The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 16. ISBN 9780151015153.

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