Where Was Widow’s Bay Filmed? The real locations behind the fictional island

In one of the first scenes, Loftis’ teenage son, Evan, is smoking with his friends on a car.

This scene takes place at White Wharf in Rockport’s old harbor. Rockport is a small seaside town of about 7,000 residents on the tip of the Cape Ann peninsula, around 40 miles northeast of Boston.

Berlin's historic Town Hall, dating from 1870, served as Widow's Bay Town Hall.

This historic civic building is a Greek Revival structure that now operates as a community event venue.

The local harbor was filmed at Lane’s Cove, a picturesque landing harbor protected by a granite storm wall on the eastern Cape Ann side of Gloucester.

This location was also featured in the Oscar-winning movie CODA, although only the Harbor Master’s Office is a real building; the others, including the lobster shack, were film props.

The historical society museum interior rooms were filmed at the Shirley Center Town Hall in Middlesex County, about 40 miles northwest of Boston.

The Salty Whale exterior was a former art gallery called Dark Star Philosophia on Bearskin Neck, a narrow peninsula in Rockport.

Originally a fishing village, Bearskin Neck has evolved into a lively area filled with small shops, seafood restaurants, and tourists.

The Barnabus Tavern interior is Vincent’s, a long-standing rustic bar and music venue in Worcester, known for its live music and famous meatball sandwich.

Widow’s Bay Inn exterior is the Lorenzo Maynard's mansion, a Second Empire-style house in Maynard, about 25 miles northwest of Boston.

Built in 1873, it was a symbol of the town’s industrial elite in the late 19th century.

Today, the house survives as divided apartment units.

Widow’s Bay church is Martha-Mary Chapel, a small white-clapboard chapel built in 1940 by Henry Ford on the grounds of Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury.

The exterior of Widow’s Bay Local Museum, which appears for the first time in the third episode, "The Inaugural Swim," is a private house in the town of Harvard, Worcester County.

Originally built between 1690 and 1700 in a rural area of Bedford, Middlesex County, the historic structure was saved from demolition and relocated to Harvard around 1980.

Today, this four-bedroom house is a single-family home situated on a spacious 5.8-acre lot.

The shots with tourists flooding the town’s streets were also filmed on Bearskin Neck in Rockport.

The beach was filmed at Half Moon Beach in Gloucester, a small, crescent‑shaped stretch of sand located inside Stage Fort Park.

The lighthouse is the Eastern Point Lighthouse, which is located across Gloucester Harbor on the eastern tip of Cape Ann, visible from Half Moon Beach with binoculars.

The current cylindrical brick tower, completed in 1890, is an active U.S. Coast Guard lighthouse, although it's closed to the public.

The Driftwood Diner in the scene with Marissa (played by Elizabeth Alderfer of AP Bio) is Johnson’s Restaurant and Dairy Bar, a family-run American eatery in Groton.

The wine party house featured in the fourth episode, "Beach Reads," was filmed in Ayer, a small town in north-central Massachusetts.

Built in 1820, this three-bedroom, two-bathroom single-family home has an estimated value of around half a million dollars.

Patricia (played by Kate O'Flynn) also lives in a house on this street: a three-bedroom home built in 1854 with a similar market tag.

The village in 1702 featured in the sixth episode, "Our History," was filmed on the grounds of the Rebecca Nurse Homestead in Danvers.

The red house is the preserved 17th-century home of Rebecca Nurse, who was executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials.

It is one of the most important surviving sites connected to the trials, now operating as a historic museum.

The 28-acre farm includes the family cemetery and a reconstruction of the First Meetinghouse of Salem Village (pictured).

Built in 1672, this house served as the main church and community meeting place of Salem Village (now Danvers), which became a key site during the famous trials.