The Town of Wiscasset Sunken Garden

The Town of Wiscasset Sunken Garden is maintained by our volunteers in collaboration with the Appearance of the Town Committee. Efforts are underway to begin reworking this garden to what it might have looked like in 1924 when Frances Sortwell and her mother Gertrude created a moonlight garden planted in whites and light blues and pinks. The newly restored landscape architecture (Fall 2020) was recreated from a picture of the original garden in 1910.

The three major pieces were two white arches at each entrance to the garden, and a white pergola which add a special magnificence to this small jewel of a garden hidden in the middle of Wiscasset Village. A generous gift of $10,000 from our Club restored the red brick paths that line the garden beds. Another GCW member’s donation restored the landscape architecture that distinguished this unique sunken garden over 100 years ago.