Adorable contemporary farmhouse sits surrounded on 9.8 beautifully groomed and forested acres with 300 feet of frontage on the East Machias River! This is your opportunity to live in the countryside with lots of open space, yet you can be in town in minutes! Grocery, restaurants, pharmacy, banking, medical facilities and a hospital are in Machias, the county seat, all less than ten minutes away! Have the best of both worlds. This is a dream property for gardening or farming! Raised garden beds and cleared pasture areas for planting as much or as little as your heart desires. Enough acreage available here to start your own farm. Very well designed gravel driveway begins where the public road ends and continues all the way to the house. The 40 foot high cube shipping container storage shed holds most anything you can imagine for storage. Extra high security locks upgraded and installed. Home has digital front entry door lock, so you never have to search for your keys. Front and back decks are great for BBQ's and entertaining outdoors. The gorgeous green lawns, old growth shade trees, firepit area and the river front offers an abundance of outside enjoyment without ever having to leave your property. Beautiful remodeled bathrooms, an efficient kitchen with gas range and a walk in pantry that looks like the 'Home Edit' designed it, finished off with black farmhouse barn doors to close when your company arrives. The pellet stove keeps this well insulated home very toasty and the newly installed Mini split heat pump offers supplemental heat and A/C when needed for warmer days in the summer months. New exterior power pole and service lines were installed by Versant Power in 2019. Property is close to several popular area lakes and beaches. Walk to the rivers edge and launch your kayak or canoe and fish along 36 miles of river and be entertained by abundant wildlife.