Saint Croix Island International Historic Site, on the Canadian border in eastern Maine, is the site of one of the first French settlements in North America. Explorers Pierre du Gua, Sieur de Monts, and Samuel de Champlain established a colony there in 1604. The colony was abandoned in 1605. The site is on St. Croix Island and on the southern bank of the St. Croix River. The United States Congress authorized the site as a national monument in 1949, but all the land was not acquired until 1967. In 1984, Congress made it an International Historic Site.
