History
Cutts Island is home to Seapoint Beach and the Brave Boat Harbor Division of the Rachel Carson Carson National Wildlife Refuge.
First settled as early as 1623, the southern part of Kittery was once called Champernowne's after Sir Francis Champernowne, a prominent merchant adventurer and cousin of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the prime mover behind settlement north of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The population was 1,135 at the United States Census, 2000 census. Near Seapoint Beach in the mid-20th century, the Newcomen Society of the United States Society built a cluster of Tudor style architecture cottages at what was then its summer retreat. He went on to build a mercantile empire, which his son Sir William Pepperrell inherited and expanded. Recently threatened with redevelopment because of its desirable view of Pepperrell Cove and Portsmouth Harbor, the building has instead been building restoration Some speculate that the Bray House was the birthplace of the mother of Sir William Pepperrell, whose father William Pepperrell Sr.
