Mountain View Shores Association
A registered Maine non-profit corporation of 55 house lots on the shores of Horn Pond, in Acton.
Land held in common
The association holds a boat launch, a beach, open space, and Mountain View Drive, a private gravel road. Members are deeded landowners and elect a seven member board to conduct the business of the association.
Site of the annual meeting each July. The swim raft is moored off the beach.
Gated from Labor Day to Memorial Day. Keys on request.
A private gravel road. Posted 15 mph.
Three ways to protect Horn Pond water quality
No aquatic invasive plants are known in Horn Pond. The pond flushes 8.2 times a year.
More at mainelakes.org and the Acton Wakefield Watersheds Alliance.
Horn Pond
Wakefield, New Hampshire and Acton, Maine. In the Salmon Falls River watershed. Outline traced from the state depth chart.
Title history of the association land
Recorded deeds and subdivision plans at the York County Registry of Deeds, compiled by Tom Gore.
- 1668
- Capt. Sandy, a Sagamore of the Ossipee, deeds the Ossipee Tract to Francis Small. Book 42, page 239.
- 1830
- The west parish of Shapleigh separates and incorporates as the Town of Acton.
- 1848
- Daniel Ricker conveys riparian rights to the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, granting the right to maintain dams and flood land.
- 1940
- The property is conveyed to Sanford Girl Scouts, Inc. and operates as Camp Sa-Gis-Ca. Book 915, page 504.
- 1971
- Kennebec Girl Scout Council conveys the camp property. The Mountain View Shores subdivision plan is recorded in October. Plan Book 53, page 37.
- 1973
- The Woodland Shores subdivision plan is recorded. Plan Book 63, page 45.
- 1983
- Title to the land held in common is conveyed to Mountain View Shores Assn., Inc. Book 3141, page 4.
Lakeside Investment Corporation's Woodland Shores Development, June 1973. Approved by the Acton Planning Board and filed in Plan Book 63, page 45.
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