This historic community is located on the shoreline about 20 miles south of Portland, ME or approximately 30 miles north of the NH-ME border.

The Town of Kennebunk has had its own electric department since the 1890s. A mill near the centre of town initially generated electricity for local residents and still is in periodic operation, although most power nowadays is purchased through "the grid". Kennebunk, ME is among very few communities in Maine with a public power utility and their rates are about a third of neighboring communities who are served by a large private power company.

Kennebunk, ME retained many radial-wave street lights like the one seen here, until about 2000. Many replacement lights were similar in design (as reproductions) with energy-efficent lightbulbs within them, maintaining the "old look" ambience of this popular tourist area.