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Statehood: Well known for jagged rocky coastlines, rolling mountains, dense forests, clams, lobsters, and lighthouses the easternmost State of the contiguous United States was an exclave of Massachusetts until 1820 when, under the Missouri Compromise, Maine became the 23rd State of the Union on March 15, 1820. Location: First settled by the French in 1604, and by the English Plymouth Company in 1607, at Popham Colony near the Kennebec River, in Modern Day Phippsburg, the Pine Tree State is bordered by New Hampshire, the Atlantic Ocean, New Brunswick and Quebec. Name: Becoming commonly used in 1665, although there are no definitive basis for the origins of its name, Maine is the only State in the Country with a one syllable name. Unique Features: The least heavily populated State east of the Mississippi River, the northernmost New England State contains about half of the entire land area found in the region, and West Quaddy Head in Lubec, the easternmost town in the Country. The ownership of North Rock and Machais Seal Island is disputed over by the United States and by Canada. Old Sow, between Deer Island and Indian Island, is the largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere. Ninety percent of Maine is forested and some parts of the State, such as the Northwest Aroostook Territory, lack formal political organization. Geography: Containing about 3500 miles of rock-bound shorelines full of lighthouses, fishing villages, thousands of offshore islands, bays, inlets, mountains, and a "drowned coast," much of Maine's geography is the result of heavy glacial activities at the end of the Ice Age, including the large boulder on the edge of Bubble Mountain in Acadia National Park known as Bubble Rock and the Somes Sound Fjord. Native Americans: Native American Indian tribes that lived in what became the State of Maine included the Penobscot, the Mikmaq, the Abenaki, the Maliseet, the Wabanaki, the Pennacook, the Anasagunticook, the Norridgewock, the Etechemin, the Wampanoag, the Arosaguntacook, and the Passamaquoddy. History: The Red Paint People, a maritime Pre-Columbia Era culture native to New England, known for using red ochre in their burial mounds, and the Susquehanna Pottery Tradition, are believed to be the original inhabitants of the land that became the State of Maine between 3000BC and 1000BC. In 1622 the area located between the Kennebec and the Merrimack Rivers was referred to as the Province of Maine, but split in 1629 resulting in the Province of New Hampshire, and in New Somersetshire being created. The 19th Century industrialization of Maine included pine and spruce lumber in the Penobscot and Kennebec valleys, transportation, shipbuilding, cotton on the Androscoggin River in Lewiston, textiles, granite, brick making, slate quarrying, fishing, especially clams and lobsters, paper manufacturing, agriculture, particularly potatoes, footwear, electronics, and tourism. Including the 1835 Calais Railroad built to move lumber from the Saint Croix River to Calais, the State's first railroad, and the Calais and Baring Railroad, the St. Croix and Penobscot Railroad, the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, the Bangor, Oldtown, and Milford Railroad Company, the European and North American Railway, the Portland, Saca, and Portsmouth Railway, the Maine Eastern Railroad, the Grand Trunk Railroad, the Maine Central Railroad, the Boston and Maine Railroad, the Monson Railroad, the Kennebec Central Railroad, the Bridgton and Saco River Railroad, and the Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington Railway, railroads have played an important part in shaping the history of Maine. The 1816-1817 "Ohio Fever" expansion of resettling west of the Appalachian Mountains to Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan was the first mass exodus of people from Maine, and the 1849 California Gold Rush had a major impact on the shipbuilding and lumber industries of the State. Receptive to the "Free Soil" Platform Maine was the first Northeastern State seized by the Republic Party during the Civil War, provided the second largest number of sailors to the Union navy, and was instrumental in Northern victories in the Battle of Gettysburg and the Battle of Petersburg. Multiple Summer Cottage mansions have been built in Sorrento, Islesboro, Bar Harbor, and Kennebunkport, by some of America's wealthiest families including the Rockefellers, the Roosevelts, and the Bushs, resulting in Maine adding the term "Vacationland" to its license plates to help develop tourism in the State. National Park Sites: Maine contains the Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, New England's only National Park, the Saint Croix Island International Historical Site, a 6.5 acre uninhabited island in Passamaquoddy Bay, that forms part of the International Boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, the Roosevelt Campobello International Park that preserves the house and land where Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracted polio in August of 1921, and part of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, including Mount Katahdin, its northern terminal. White Mountain National Forest: Established in 1918, with peaks standing more than four thousand feet tall, and drawing more than six million visitors a year, the White Mountain National Forest, of which only a small portion is located in the State of Maine, with the rest being found in New Hampshire, contains the five Federal Wilderness Areas known as the Presidential Mountain Range, with prominent peaks named for American Presidents Franklin Pierce, Dwight Eisenhower, James Monroe, George Washington, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and James Madison, the "Father of the United States Constitution," the Great Gulf Wilderness and it's glacially-formed valley head, the very rugged and full of scenic views Sandwich Mountain Range, the Pemigewasset Wilderness, it's large trail network, and once famous logging area, the Caribou Speckled Mountain Wilderness, the Franconia Notch State Park, the Cannon Mountain Pass, the home of the New Hampshire State Symbol known as the "Old Man of the Mountain," consisting of five granite cliff ledges that form a jagged face profile, 1200 miles of hiking trails, and many nearby ski areas. State Parks: State Parks in Maine include the Allagash Wilderness Waterway State Park, a popular canoeing route that contains the Telos Public Reserved Land Area, Tells Lake, and Chamberlain Lake, the Aroostook State Park, the first State Park created in Maine, the Birch Point Beach State Park at Penobscot Bay, the Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal, one of Maine's Original Five State Parks, the Baxter State Park and large wilderness area in Piscataquis County of north-central Maine, containing more than 200,000 acres, and the home of the State's highest peak, Mount Katahdin, the northern terminal of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, the Crescent Beach State Park in Cape Elizabeth, the Cobscook Bay State Park south of Dennysville, a bird watching haven with more than two hundred species of birds including Bald Eagles, the Damariscotta Lake State Park with whitewater canoeing on the Sheepscot River, the Ferry Beach State Park between the Saco River and Pine Point, with white sandy beaches, the Fort Point State Park in Stockton Springs, the Grafton Notch State Park between Newry and Upton, containing three thousand acres of natural terrain, the Holbrook Island Sanctuary State Park in Brooksville with mud flats, beaches, old volcanoes, steep hills, rocky coasts, and abundant wildlife including bobcats, coyotes, and foxes, the Lake St. George State Park in Liberty containing 1017 forested acres, the Lamoine State Park in Ellsworth, on the Atlantic Ocean, and known as the "Gateway to Downeast Maine," the Lily Bay State Park on Moorehead Lake in Greenville, the Moose Point State Park on the Penobscot Bay in Searsport, the Mount Blue State Park on Webb Lake in Franklin County, a popular Geocaching with Ground Positioning System receivers location, the Peacock Beach State Park on Pleasant Pond in Richmond and Augusta, Maine's capital city, the Peaks-Kenny State Park on Lake Sebec in Dover, the remote Penobscot River Corridor in undeveloped forest land near Millinocket, the Popham Beach State Park in Phippsburg, a popular wildlife watching area next to Fort Popham, the Quaddy Head State Park in Lubec on the easternmost point of land in the contiguous United States, the Range Ponds State Park in Poland with smooth promenades paralleling the pond for one thousand feet, the Rangeley Lake State Park with a major snowmobile trail, the Reid State Park on Georgetown Island in Sagadahoc County, the Rogue Bluffs State Park along Maine's Bold Coast in Machia, the Shackford Head State Park near the Cobscook Bay on an undeveloped peninsula in Eastport, the Sebago Lake State Park in the popular tourist area of the Maine Lakes Region, the Swan Lake State Park in Swanville with trout and salmon fishing, the Swans Falls Campground along the Saco River in the Mount Washington Valley, the Two Lights State Park with a World War Two seacoast battery bunker, a fire control tower, and twin lighthouses on Cape Elizabeth, the Vaughn Woods State Park on the Salmon Falls River in South Berwick, the Warren Island State Park in Lincolnville, the first State Park in Maine developed for boating, and the Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park along Casco Bay and the Harraseeket River in Freeport. State Historic Sites: State Historic Sites found in Maine include the Bible Point State Historic Site on the south end of Mattawamkeag Lake that commemorates the place Teddy Roosevelt read his Bible every day, the Colburn House State Historic Site where Major Rueben Colburn, who assisted George Washington in the 1775 Invasion of Canada to gain Quebec, lived, the Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site on Johns Bay in Bristol containing 17th Century excavations, an artifact museum, and an early 20th Century rebuilding of Fort William Henry, the Eagle Island State Historic Site in Casco Bay, the retirement home of the North Pole Explorer Admiral Robert Peary, the Fort Baldwin State Historic Site in Phippsburg manned during both World Wars, the 1808 Fort Edgecomb State Historic Site on Davis Island that guarded Thomas Jefferson's embargo of the port of Wiscasset, the 1754 Fort Halifax State Historic Site in Winslow with the oldest blockhouse in the United States, the 1839 Fort Kent State Historic Site in Bangor built to prepare for the military invasion of Canada over the dispute of Maine's northeastern boundary, the Fort Knox State Historic Site on the Penobscot River in Prospect, built after the Aroostook War of 1838-1839, to defend Bangor against British invasions over Canadian border issues, the Fort O'Brien State Historic Site in Machias that saw conflicts during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, the 1861 Fort Popham State Historic Site in Phippsburg used during the Civil War, the Spanish American War, and World War One, the John Paul Jones State Historic Site in Kittery, the location of the Maine Sailors and Soldiers Memorial, the Fort McClary State Historic Site at Kittery Point that protected the Piscataqua River during the the War of 1812, the Civil War, and World War Two, the Whaleback Shell Midden State Historic Site on the east side of the Damariscotta River, comprised of oyster shells, and the Katahdin Iron Works State Historic Site containing the Gulf Hagas Canyon on the Pleasant River. Islands: Islands found in the State of Maine include Badger's Island in the Piscataqua River at Kittery famous for pre-Civil War shipbuilding, Bear Island containing the 1889 Bear Island Lighthouse and one of the five Cranberry Islands, Cliff Island, the only year around inhabited Casco Bay island with no paved roads, Chebeague Island with a name meaning "Island of Many Springs," and part of the Calendar Isles of Casco Bay, Great Diamond Island, containing Diamond Cove, a "kid friendly" Casco Bay island used as a military base from the late 1880s through World War Two, Little Diamond Island, known as "Little Hog Island" during Colonial times and connected to Great Diamond Island by a sandbar, Home Island, with the 1808 Fort Scammell, used from 1907 to 1937 as an immigrant quarantine station, Peaks Island, the most heavily populated Casco Bay island, known as the "Coney Island of Maine," Long Island in Cumberland County, containing the singing sands of South Beach and used as a World War Two supply station, the Cranberry Isles consisting of Great Cranberry Island, Little Cranberry Island, Bear Island, Sutton Island, and Baker Island, Ragged Island in Knox County, known as the "Island of Lobsters," Vinalhaven Island, the home of the Red Paint People, North Haven Island, a major Summer Colony and the location of the North Haven Dinghy Races, Frye Island in Sebago Lake, with the large rock known as Frye's Leap, granted to Maine soldiers of the French and Indian Wars, Great Duck Island south of Frenchman's Bay that provides habitat for most of the nesting seabirds in Maine, Indian Island, and the Penobscot Indian Reservation, near Old Town, with Penobscot High Stakes Bingo, one of the first Indian gambling enterprises in the United States, Isle au Haut in Penobscot Bay, home of part of the Acadia National Park and many Native American shell mounds, the Isles of Shoals, a collection of small islands straddling New Hampshire and Maine, and an important fishing area for the original Colonies established there, Appledore Island, the largest of the Isles of Shoals, with a World War Two observation tower, Little Cranberry Island, part of the Acadia National Park, Smuttynose Island famous for a series of murders that occurred there on March 6, 1873, Machias Seal Island in the Gulf of Maine whose ownership is disputed over by the United States and Canada, Matinicus Isle and Plantation in Knox County with a name meaning "Far-Out Island," Monhegan Island and Plantation in the Gulf of Maine, with a name that means "Out to Sea Island," Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, the largest off coast island in Maine, and the home of several Summer Colonies, including Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor, Saint Croix Island that forms part of the International Boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, Seavey's Island in the Piscataqua River, the home of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and Swains Island in Hancock County that was first charted in 1606. Bays: The State of Maine contains approximately fifty bays along its waterways including the Bay of Fundy, Saco Bay, Casco Bay, Seal Bay, Penobscot Bay, Machias Bay, Cobscook Bay, Dennys Bay, Frenchman's Bay, Chandler Bay, Johnson Bay, Harrington Bay, Winter Harbor Bay, Western Way Bay, and Passamaquoddy Bay. Capes, Lakes and Ponds: There are as many as 1200 capes, and 5000 or more lakes and ponds, found in the State of Maine. The largest ones in Androscoggin County include Auburn Lake, Sebattus Pond, Tripp Pond, Taylor Pond, and Middle Range Pond. The largest ones in Aroostook County include Mud Lake, Wytopitlock Lake, Long Lake, Molunkus Lake, Meduxnekeag Lake, Umsaskis Lake, Madawaska Lake, East Lake, Beau Lake, Pleasant Lake, Portage Lake, St. Froid Lake, Cross Lake, Fish River Lake, Mattawamkeag Lake, Squapan Lake, Eagle Lake, Square Lake, Schoodic Lake, First Musquacook Lake, Second Musquacook Lake, Fourth Musquacook Lake, Glazier Lake, Big Machia Lake, Deering Lake, Togue Pond, Gardner Pond, Deboullie Lake, and Second Chase Pond. The largest ones in Cumberland County are Trickey Pond, Crystal Lake, Thomas Pond, Highland Lake, Rattlesnake Lake, Bay of Naples Lake, Peabody Pond, Pleasant Lake, Panther Pond, Moose Pond, Little Sebago Lake, Thompson Lake, Long Lake, and Sebago Lake. The largest ones in Franklin County are Varnum Pond, Jim Pond, Beaver Mountain Lake, Porter Lake, Clearwater Lake, Kennebago Lake, Webb Lake, and Rangeley Lake. The largest ones in Hancock County are Graham Lake, Nicatous Lake, Green Lake, Branch Lake, Toddy Pond, Tunk Lake, Spectacle Pond, Beech Hill Pond, Abamgamock Lake, Molasses Pond, Duck Lake, Donnell Pond, Alligator Lake, Alamoosook Lake, Upper Lead Mountain Pond, Long Pond, Lucerne Lake, Lower Patten Pond, Mountainy Pond, Walker Pond, Floods Pond, Eagle Lake, and Jordan Pond. The largest ones in Kennebec County are Great Pond, Cobbosseecontee Lake, Androscoggin Lake, China Lake, Messalonskee Lake, Long Pond, Maranacook Lake, East Pond, Parker Pond, Webber Pond, Annabessacook Lake, Threemile Pond, Echo Lake, Salmon Pond, and Togus Pond. The largest ones in Knox County are Megunticook Lake, Alford Lake, and Seven Tree Pond. The largest ones in Lincoln County are Damariscotta Lake, Pemaquid Pond, and Biscay Pond. The largest ones in Oxford County are Mooselookmeguntic Lake, Umbagog Lake, Richardson Lake, Aziscohos Lake, Kezar Lake, Kezar Pond, Lovewell Pond, Pennesseewassee Lake, Parmachenee Lake, Hancock Pond, Lake Anasagunticook, Sturtevant Pond, Koeka Lake, McWain Pond, and Colcord Pond. The largest ones in Penobscot County are Chemo Pond, Millimagassett Lake, Endless Lake, Scraggley Lake, South Branch Lake, Grand Lake Seboeis, Cold Stream Pond, Junior Lake, Sebasticook Lake, Pushaw Lake, First Matagamon Lake, Pug Lake, Ambajejus Lake, Lake Wassookeag, East Branch Lake, Upper Sysladobsis Lake, Mattamiscontis Lake, Brewer Lake, Big Madagascal Pond, Scraggly Lake, Cedar Lake, and Upper Cold Stream Pond. The largest ones in Sagadahoc County are Nequasset Lake and Mud Pond. The largest ones in Waldo County are Quantabacook Lake, Lake Saint George, Sheepscot Pond, Swan Lake, and Unity Pond. The largest ones in York County are Great East Lake, Mousam Lake, Square Pond, and Little Ossipee Lake. The largest ones in Washington County are Spednic Lake, Big Lake, Baskahegan Lake, Meddybemps Lake, the Grand Falls Flowage, Gardner Lake, Cuthand Lake, Third Machias Lake, Pocomoonshine Lake, Pocumus Lake, Upper Sabao Lake, Crawford Lake, Second Lake, Hadley Lake, Boyden Lake, Rocky Lake, West Musquash Lake, Mopang Lake, Pleasant Lake, Clifford Lake, Pennamaquan Lake, Sunken Lake, Fifth Machias Lake, Pleasant River Lake, Nashs Lake, Bog Lake, East Musquash Lake, Love Lake, and Lambert Lake. The largest ones in Somerset County are Flagstaff Lake, Brassua Lake, Moose Pond, Seboomook Lake, Indian Pond, Long Pond, Attean Pond, Canada Falls Lake, Moxie Pond, Wood Pond, Wyman Lake, Spencer Lake, Embden Pond, Wesserunsett Lake, Baker Lake, Penobscot Lake, Bald Mountain Pond, Holeb Pond, Pleasant Pond, Spring Lake, West Carry Pond, Little Big Wood Pond, King and Bartlett Lake, and Enchanted Pond. The largest ones in Piscataquis County are Moosehead Lake, Chesuncook Lake, Chamberlain Lake, Big Eagle Lake, Schoodic Lake, Sebec Lake, Seboeis Lake, Caucomgomoc Lake, Allagash Lake, Churchill Lake, Lobster Lake, First Roach Pond, Ross Lake, Ragged Lake, Telos Lake, Lower Jo-Mary Lake, Upper Jo-Mary Lake, Black Pond, Rainbow Lake, Munsungan Lake, Umbazooksus Lake, Lower Wilson Pond, Nesowadnehunk Lake, Indian Pond, Harrington Lake, Onawa Lake, Shallow Lake, Loon Lake, Upper Wilson Pond, Nahmakanta Lake, Third Debsconeag Lake, Haymock Lake, Spider Lake, Second Roach Pond, Hurd Pond, Long Pond, Big Houston Pond, Lake Hebron, Priestly Lake, Clear Lake, Webster Lake, First Debsconeag Lake, Monson Pond, Crawford Pond, Whetstone Pond, and Fourth Debsconeag Lake. Rivers: Major rivers found in Maine include the Saint John River, the Daaquam River, the Big Black River where the State's all-time lowest temperature of -50 degrees below zero was recorded at the Van Buren Station on January 16, 2009, the Little Saint Roch River, the Little Black River, the Allagash River north of Mount Katahdin, the Fish River, the St. Francis River at the northernmost point of New England, the Red River, the Birch River, the Aroostook River, the Blackwater River, the Machias River, a well known State canoeing trip, the Little Madawaska River, the River De Chute, the St. Croix River, the Pennamaquan River, the Hardscrabble River, the Chandler River, the Indian River, the West River, the Penobscot River, Maine's second longest river, the Jordan River, the Union River, the Oyster River, the Sheepscot River, the Goose River, with Class V whitewater rafting, the Ducktrap River, the Kennebec River, the Moose River, the Salmon Falls River, the Piscataqua River, the Androscoggin River, the Merrimack River, the Saco River, the Pleasant River, the Damariscotta River, the Harraseeket River, the Carrabassett River, the Fore River, and more. Mountains: The State of Maine is full of mountains, including its tallest, Mount Katahdin, in the Hundred Mile Wilderness Area of Piscataquis County northeast of Millinocket, and the centerpiece of Baxter State Park, the popular ski resort known as Sugarloaf Mountain in Franklin County, Crocker Mountain in the Carrabassett Valley of Franklin County containing the glacial Crocker Cirque, Old Speck Mountain in Oxford County, in the Mahoosuc Range of the extremely popular White Mountains, North Brother Mountain in Baxter State Park near the Klondike Swamp, Bigelow Mountain in Franklin County an Appalachian Mountain Club Four Thousand Footer, Saddleback Mountain in Rangeley a famous ski resort, Mount Abraham in Franklin County that was heavily logged in the 19th Century, Mount Redington in Franklin County northeast of the United States Navy Survival Escape and Evasion Training Facility, Spaulding Mountain in Franklin County by Farmington, South Brother Mountain, in Baxter State Park, in the Penobscot River Watershed, Snow Mountain five miles south of the US-Canada border, Goose Eye Mountain in Oxford County one mile east of the Maine-New Hampshire State Line, Mount Coe in Baxter State Park northeast of Mount Katahdin, East Kennebago Mountain in Franklin County, a trailless mountain known as a monadnock, or isolated small mountain above a surrounding plain, Baldpate Mountain in Oxford County with two peaks, Fort Mountain, in Baxter State Park, that has a herd path leading to its summit, White Cap Mountain in Franklin County one mile east of the US border with Quebec, Boundary Peak, located on the US-Canada border, a mountain with no official name, and the highest point on the border east of the Rocky Mountains, Kennebago Divide, in Franklin and Oxford Counties, a mile and a half southeast of the US-Canada border, Elephant Mountain in Oxford County with the Appalachian National Scenic Trail at its base, Coburn Mountain in Somerset County in the western part of Maine, Black Nubble Mountain in the Kennebec River Watershed a proposed wind farm location for the State, West Kennebago Mountain located by the Androscoggin River Watershed, White Cap Mountain in the Pleasant River Watershed, Kibby Mountain, in Franklin County, three and a half miles east of the US-Canada border, Boundary Bald Mountain in Somerset County seven and a half miles southeast of Quebec, Traveler Mountain, in Baxter State Park, that was named by loggers of the East Branch of the Penobscot River, Baker Mountain in Beaver Cove a wild trailless mountain, Doubletop Mountain, in Baxter State Park, on the Nesowadnehunk Stream, Sunday River Whitecap Mountain in Oxford County a popular ski resort offering 360-degree panaramic views of the White Mountains, Big Spencer Mountain in Piscataquis County in the north central part of Maine, Big Moose Mountain, in the Kennebec River Watershed, an alpine skiing area originally known as Big Squaw Mountain, Mount Blue in Burnett County featured in the Judith Bluestone Polich book entitled "Children of Light," Puzzle Mountain, in Oxford County, with a false peak northwest of its real summit, Sandy Bay Mountain in Somerset County on the three watersheds of the Penobscot River, the Moose River, and the Kennebec River, Moxie Mountain in Somerset County in western Maine, Borestone Mountain, in Piscataquis County, a popular hiking location and part of the Borestone Mountain Audubon Sanctuary, Mount Kineo in the northern Maine forest on the Kineo Peninsula, Mars Hill Mountain a popular ski area that overlooks the St. John Valley, and from March to September thought to be the first place in the United States to see the sun rise, Cadillac Mountain on Mount Desert Island, in the Acadia National Park, believed to be the first place in the Country struck by the sun's rays each morning, and featuring the "Nation's First Sunrise," a popular Acadia National Park activity, Mount Tire'm a small mountain in Waterford near Keoka Lake, Bauneg Beg Mountain in North Berwick the home of one of the rarest varieties of orchids in the Eastern United States, Mount Jefferson south of Lee in Penobscot County, Mount Agamenticus, in southern Maine, a wildlife reservation and recreational park, and the White Mountains of western Maine and eastern New Hampshire, including the Presidential Range, named after US Presidents, containing the highest elevations in the Northeastern United States, more than 180 species of birds including Peregrine Falcons, possessing more than 1200 miles of hiking trails, providing a very popular back county, and drawing significant numbers of visitors each year. Beaches: Maine beaches vary from pristine with soft sand beaches, to those Downeast full of smooth stones, and some of the most popular ones include the small York Harbor Beach, Short Sands Beach, Drakes Island Beach, Goose Rocks Beach, Old Orchard Beach that is continuously voted one of Maine's top beaches, Sand Beach at Bar Harbor, Bear Island Beach, Long Beach, Ogunquit Beach, Wells Beach, York Beach, and many more well known, and not so well known, unless you live in the State, hideaways. Caves: Maine contains many different types of caves including sandstone Sea Caves in the Downeast Region of the State, north of Eastport, such as the Gulliver's Hole Cave and the Day Mountain Cave, granite Fissure Caves, the most commonly found in Maine, including the Grotto Cave and the Allagash Ice Cave, small limestone caves in the southern and eastern portions of the State including the Indian Pond Cave and the Enchanted Cave, Casco Bay Islands caves, mountain caves like Moose Cave and the Greenwood Ice Cave, Mid-Coast caves such as the Delano Hill Cave and Inman's Cave, Mount Desert Island caves, and the Witherle E-T Cave, the longest cave in Maine. Lighthouses: Maine contains sixty-six lighthouses along its Atlantic coastline reaching from the Whitlock's Mill Lighthouse at Calais on the south bank of the St. Croix River, the State's northernmost lighthouse, to the Whaleback Ledge Lighthouse in the mouth of the Piscataqua River, its southernmost lighthouse. Other noteworthy lighthouses in the State include the 1837 Fort Point Lighthouse, Maine's westernmost lighthouse, located in the Penobscot River near Stockton Springs, the Boon Island Lighthouse, Maine's tallest lighthouse, the Goat Island Lighthouse, the State's last manned lighthouse, the Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse with the most powerful east light in New England, the 1791 Portland Head Lighthouse, Maine's oldest lighthouse, the Kennebec River Range Lighthouse, the State's only range lighthouse, the Manhegan Island Lighthouse, the first point seen on most Transatlantic voyages, the Matinicus Rock Lighthouse, Maine's most isolated light station, the West Quoddy Lighthouse, the easternmost lighthouse in the United States where the sun first rises each morning in this Country, and the 1879 Nubble Lighthouse on York Beach off of Cape Niddick, one of Maine's most popularly photographed lighthouses. Logging: The first trees logged in Maine were cut down on Monhegan Island in the early 1600s and South Berwick was the home of the first water-powered sawmill. Bangor became the world's largest port for lumber between 1832 to 1888, with as many as 3000 ships at a time in dock waiting to transport more than 8,737,628,202 board feet of lumber, the majority of which was harvested in the Patten area one hundred miles away. Oxen, horses, axes, and Cant Dogs were the basic tools of the trade for Maine logging operations and working up to fourteen hours a day in ice water, sleeping in wet blankets, facing constant dangers, separating log jams on the rivers by hand, and dynamite blasting constituted the life of Maine lumbermen. The 1901 Lombard Steam Log Haulers were the first crawler-type overland tractors used to haul logs in Maine, and there are still approximately 140 logging companies operating in the State. Lobsters: Living in cold shallow waters full of rocks and places to hide from predators, especially its main ones including cod, haddock, seals, flounder, and other lobsters, these solitary and nocturnal creatures can reach weights up to about forty pounds, and are one of the most popular Attractions in the State of Maine. With shells that can be red, yellow, or blue, lobsters prefer one claw, known as the Crusher, and used for hunting and fishing, over the other claw, known as the Pincher, that is used for grabbing. Caught in traps, and boiled or steamed alive, lobsters are a very popular American food. Black Bears: The only species of bears residing in the eastern United States, and typically weighing as much as six hundred pounds, Black Bears are the smallest variety of American bears and have the widest range in the Country. These solitary animals prefer to live in forests, feed on vegetation and other animals, live up to thirty years in the wild, may have white throats or blazes on their chests, and are famous in Maine. Attractions: Major Attractions found in the State of Maine include the 19th Century-built Morse-Libby Victoria Mansion, the Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine, the Portland Museum of Art, the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and Museum, the Casco Bay islands, the Portland Observatory Museum, the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, the Center for Maine History, the Museum of African Tribal Art, the abandoned Fort Gorges, the Maine Sports Hall of Fame, the Portland Harbor Museum, the Portland Back Cove Trail, the Southworth Planetarium, the Ram Island Ledge Lighthouse, the Jewell Falls, the International Cryptozoology Museum, the Mount Desert Oceanarium, whale watching, the Abbe Museum of Native American Indians, Hulls Cove, the Egg Rock Lighthouse, the Bar Harbor Historical Society Museum, Frenchman Bay, Cadillac Mountain, the highest point along the North Atlantic Seaboard, the Acadia National Park, the Boothbay Region Historical Society Museum, the Sea Pier Aquarium, the George H.W. Bush Estate, the Saint Anthony's Franciscan Monastary, Kennebunk Beach, the High Street Historic District in Camden, the Farnsworth Art Museum, the Maine Lighthouse Museum, the Coastal Children's Museum, the Peary-MacMillan Artic Museum, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, the Maine State Museum, the Pine Tree State Arboretum, the State Capitol Complex, the Children's Discovery Museum, the Desert of Maine sand dunes, the Sunday River Ski Resort, the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum, the Shawnee Peak Ski Area, the Bridgton Civil War Monument, the Maine Maritime Academy Museum and 500-foot Training Ship, the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, Fort Preble, Mount Katahdin, Sugarloaf Mountain, the Asticou Azalea Garden, the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine, the Penobscot Marine Museum, the Center For Maine Contemporary Art, the Funtown Splashtown USA Amusement Park, the Blue Heron Gallery, the Stanwood Homestead Musuem and Wildlife Sanctuary, the Somes Sound Fjord, the Perry Creek Preserve, the Ski Museum of Maine, the Hinckley Yachts Factory, the Marshall Point Lighthouse Museum, the Owls Head Transportation Museum, the Paul Bunyan Statue, the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, the Cole Land Transportation Museum, the White Mountain National Forest, the Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory, the tallest in the world, the Madawaska Four Corners Amusement Park, the Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, the Mayberry Hill Preserve, the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Machias Seal Island, the Holbrook Island Sanctuary, the Reversing Falls Park, the Todd Audubon Sanctuary at Hog Island, the Bryant Stove and Music Museum, the General Henry Knox Museum, the Bold Coast cliffs, the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, the Fawcett's Maine Antique Toy and Art Museum, the Islesford Historical Museum, the Lumberman's Museum, the Poland Spring Preservation Park, the North Maine Woods forest, the Maine Wildlife Park, the Museum of Vintage Fashion, the Twin Brook Recreation Area, the Maine Forest and Logging Museum, the Mount Jefferson Ski Area, the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, and more. Portland: With a phoenix as its city seal, and the motto "I Will Rise Again," in reference to Portland surviving four devastating fires that destroyed the town, the Seat of Cumberland County is Maine's social, economical, and cultural center. Located on the Fore River, and part of Casco Bay, the Old Port Exchange District of Portland, with its cobblestone streets and 19th Century brick buildings, is a popular tourist attraction. Known as Machigonne by the Native American Indians who originally inhabited the area that became Portland, and first settled in 1633 as Casco, Portland was acquired in 1658 by the Massachusetts Colony who renamed it Falmouth. Portland was destroyed by Wampanoag Indians in the 1675-1676 King Philip's War, rebuilt and destroyed again in 1690 by the French during the King William's War of 1689-1697, and by the British Royal Navy on October 18, 1775 during the Revolutionary War. In 1820 the Neck Region of Falmouth grew into the commercial shipping port of Portland and was named the capital of Maine. Six hundred 19th Century locomotives were manufactured in Portland and the town serviced five rail lines including the Grand Trunk System and the Portland Terminal Company. Icebreaker ships were a major transportation industry Portland was famous for. The July 4, 1866 Great Fire destroyed most of Portland, but in the 1990s and 2000s, tourists began flocking to the Bayside and Ocean Gateway neighborhoods. Portland has been recognized as Bon Appetit Magazine's 2009 America's Foodiest Small Town, Number Twelve on Frommer Magazine's 2007 Top Travel Destinations, Number One on Forbes Magazine's 2009 List of America's Most Livable Cities, and the Number One "Top Market in Small Business Vitality". Major industries that have been found in Portland include fishing, manufacturing, financial services, agriculture, crude oil, railroads, and transportation. Major Corporations that have been at least partially headquartered in Portland include Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, Key Bank, Magellan Petroleum, Maine Bank and Trust, Pioneer Telephone, and Aetna. Popular movies filmed in Portland include The Shawshank Redemption, Thinner, Gaster On Ice, Message In A Bottle, The Man Without A Face, and The Preacher's Wife. Popular Portland area Attractions include the 1854 Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the 1859 Marine Hospital, the Franklin Towers, standing 204 feet high and Portland's tallest building, the 1872 Second Empire-Renaissance Revival Custom House, the Portland Museum of Art, the McLellan-Sweat Mansion, the Time and Temperature Building, the Maine Historical Society and Museum, the Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine, Lincoln Park, the Back Cove Park, the Fore River Sanctuary, the Longfellow Arboretum, the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum, the Portland Observatory Museum, the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, and the Portland Head Lighthouse. Lewiston: Located in south-central Maine, at the Androscoggin River waterfalls, Lewiston was originally inhabited by Native American Arosaguntacook Indians and incorporated in 1795. An agricultural community in its early years Lewiston's location helped establish the city as a water power, and the home of the Androscoggin Falls Dam, Lock, and Canal Company, as well as several textile mills. Lewiston was named a 2007 All-American City Award Winner and is the home of major companies including the Country Kitchen Bakery, the Diamond Phoenix Corporation, the Bates Mill Complex, and the1860s-built Central Maine Medical Center. Lewiston contains forty-three National Register of Historic Places including the 1879 Trinity Episcopal Church, the 1865 St. Joseph's Catholic Church, the Basilica of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, the 1902 Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center, the 1874 Senator William P. Frye House, the 1893 Osgood Building, the 1890 Oak Street School, the 1914 Manufacturers National Bank, the 1927 Marcotte Nursing Home, Lyceum Hall, the Music Supply Company Building, the Lower Lisbon Street Historic District, the 1902 Lewiston Public Library, the Lewiston Trust and Safe Deposit Company, the 1908 Kora Shriners Temple, the 1892 Lewiston City Hall, the Jordan School, the 1926 John R. Clifford House, the 1854 Holland-Drew House, the 1885 James C. Lord House, the Bates College Hathorn Hall, the Healey Asylum, the 1903 First National Bank, the Grand Trunk Railroad Station, the 1892 First Callahan Building, the 1883 Docter Lewis J. Martel House, the 1873 Doctor Milton Wedgewood House, the 1850 Cowan Mill, the 1866 Continental Mill Housing, the 1826 Bradford House, the 1892 Atkinson Building, the 1872 Captain Holland House, Union Block, the Second Callahan Block, the 1870-built Savings Bank Block, the Pilsbury Block, the Old Fellows Block, the Lord Block, the First McGillicuddy Block, the 1882 Dominican Block, and the 1912 Bergin Block. Popular Lewiston area Attractions include the 1973-built Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge, the Great Falls Balloon Festival, the USM Lewiston-Auburn Atrium Gallery, the Lewiston-Auburn Museum, the Franco-American Heritage Center, the July 4th Liberty Festival, the Lewiston Falls, and the Thorncrag Bird Sanctuary, the largest in New England. Bangor: Originally inhabited by Penobscot Indians, who still reside on tribal lands on the Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, the Seat of Penobscot County is a major cultural and commercial center for northern and eastern Maine. Established in 1769, and known as the Condeskeag Plantation, Bangor became the site of the 1775 negotiated treaties forcing the Penobscot Indians to forfeit almost all of their ancestral lands to European settlers. Bangor was sacked by the British during the War of 1812, in the Battle of Hampden, and during the Capture of Castine on September 3, 1814. Known as the "Lumber Capital of the World" Bangor was a booming lumber port in the 19th Century. Maine lumber built most of New York and Boston, and the State supplied tons of wood to California, Oregon, Washington, and the Caribbean. Bangor was a center for anti-slavery politics prior to the Civil War and its citizens faught heavily in the First Battle of Bull Run, the Second Battle of Petersburg, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the Battle of Mobile Bay where the Confederate Fleet surrendered. Major industries that have been found in Bangor include agriculture, lumber, paper mills, railroads, and Bangor Brownies. Bangor has been highly popularized by several Steven King novels, and is the capital of his Transylmainia. Other publications the city has ben written into include "Landscape of the Body" by John Guare, "A Bundle of Letters" by Henry James, "Young Aeroplane Scouts" by Horace Porter, "Codex" by Lew Grossman, "Napolean Disentimed" by Hayford Peirce, "Lost Beneath the Surface" by Lily Strange, the "Diane Spaulding Mystery Series" by Kathy Lynn Emerson, "The Maine Woods" by Henry David Thoreau, "Travels With Charley" by John Steinbeck, "Flying From Bangor To Rio" by Robert Lowell, and several others. Many movies and television programs have been at least partially filmed in Bangor including Thinner, Firestarter, Creepshow 2, The Langoliers, Graveyard Shift, The Strange Woman, Dark Shadows, The Dead Zone, Celeste In The City, and Trailer Park Boys. Many well known songs have mentioned Bangor in them including Riding Down From Bangor (or Riding Up From Bangor), Henry Sawyer, the earliest known railroad song, I've Been Everywhere, The Rooftops of Bangor, Burgandy Shoes, Band of Brothers, How "bout Them Cowgirls, King of the Road, and more. The Great Fire of 1911 destroyed much of downtown Bangor, and most of the area is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the "Great Fire Historic District," while the unburned parts of the city are listed as the "West Market Square Historic District". Popular Bangor area Attractions include the Bangor State Fair, one of the Country's oldest, the American Folk Festival, the Bangor Book Festival, the Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race, the Paul Bunyan Marathon, the Bangor City Forest and Wildlife Habitat, salmon fishing in the Penobscot River, and more. South Portland: Located on Portland Harbor overlooking the Casco Bay islands, and known for its working waterfront on Maine's most heavily traveled seaport, South Portland is a major retail center for its region. First settled in 1630 as a farming community, and incorporated on March 15, 1895 after separating from Cape Elizabeth, South Portland became a city in 1898. Building 236 of the 440-foot long Liberty Ships of World War Two the Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corporation, the South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, and the New England Shipbuilding Corporation, were located in South Portland. Known as Maine's "Retail Capital" South Portland is the home of the Portland-Montreal Pipe Line that ships millions of barrels of oil each year to the city, Rigby Yard, New England's largest railroad yard, and Fairchild Semiconductor International. Popular South Portland area Attractions include the historic Greenbelt Walkway paved trail, Mill Creek Park, the annual Art in the Park Show, the Wainwright Farm Recreation Area, Hinckley Park, the South Portland Historical Society, the Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse, the Portland Harbor Museum, the Shoreway Arboretum, the Lyric Music Theatre, and Fort Preble. Auburn: Originally part of the Pejepscot Purchase of 1714, following the Treaty of Portsmouth between the Abenaki Indians and English settlers, the land that became Auburn was granted to veterans of the Battle of Quebec in 1736 and was not settled until after the French and Indian Wars. With a name believed taken from the 1770 Oliver Goldsmith poem entitled "The Deserted Village," and belonging to Minot in 1786, Auburn was incorporated on February 24, 1842, became the County Seat in 1854, and grew bigger by annexing nearby smaller tows including Minot, Poland, and Danville. Factory shoe making originated in Auburn, and other major industries found in the city included grain, produce, railroads, mills, cotton, carraiges, textiles, bricks, furniture, and iron products. National Historic locations found in the city of Auburn include the 1797 William Briggs Homestead, the 1874 William A. Robinson House, the Main Street Historic District, the 1871 Roak Block site, the 1914 Horatio G. Foss House, the Lamorbau Site, the 1895 Holman Day House, the 1899 Horace Munroe House, the 1878 Gay-Munroe House, the 1851 Gilead Railroad Station, the 1867 Frank L. Dingley House, the Greek-Gothic Revival-style Free Baptist Church, the 1876 First Universalist Church, the 1889 Charles L. Cushman House, the 1827 Edward Little House, the 1873 Barker Mill, the 1880 Charles A. Jordan House, the 1857 Androscoggin County Courthouse and Jail, the Auburn Public Library, and the 1890 A. A. Garalon House. Popular Auburn area Attractions include the Festival Plaza Park on the Androscoggin River, the Falls Fountain and the Shoe Fountain water sculptures, the Knight House Museum, the Hampster Point Gardens, the Auburn Fire Department Museum, and the Androscoggin Historical Society and Museum. Series: The United States Series I am writing here on associatedcontent.com provides an indepth look at all fifty States that make up this GREAT Country of ours and their five largest cities. The current list of Articles for the United States Series I have published to date includes: So This Is Sweet Home Alabama Alaska - The Land of the Midnight Sun Arizona - The Valley of the Sun California - The Golden Gate, Earthquakes and Grizzly Bears Colorful Colorado - The Rocky Mountains, Skiing, and High Technology Connecticut - The Land of Steady Habits Delaware - The Small Wonder Florida - The Snowbirds R Us State Georgia - Goobers, Peaches, and Buzzards Hawaii - Luaus, Pineapples, and Beaches Idaho - The Gem of the Mountains and Potatoes State Illinois - Mining, Factories, and Labor Unions Indiana - Land of Steel and Ducks Iowa - The Ethanol and Food Capital of the World Bleeding Kansas America's Flattest State Kentucky - The Land of Tomorrow Louisiana - The Child of the Mississippi Maryland - The "Oh Say Can You See" State Massachusetts - The Cradle of Liberty Michigan - The Automotive State Minnesota - The Bread and Butter State Mississippi - Where Cotton Was King Comments from readers are always welcome so let me know what you think about these Articles. Sources: This article was compiled from several websites that provide much more information about Maine including: visitportland.com, lewiston.me.us, maineguide.com, southportland.org, americantowns.com |
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