This subportal is part of the USA Portal . =The state of Maine is the northernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Maine is the 39th most extensive and the 41st most populous of the U.S. states and territories. It is bordered by New Hampshire to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the north. Maine...
Kents Hill Cemetery, Readfield, Kennebec County, Maine, 04355 USA : Findagrave
" In May, 1630, the barke Warwick found its way up the Piscataqua and Newichawannock rivers. On board were Ambrose Gibbons, Roger Knight and probably Thomas Spencer. Their wives came the following year. "So begins Everett Stackpole's The First Permanent Settlement in Maine (c1926). According to Wikipedia:>"Originally part of Kittery, the area later comprised by Berwick was settled about 1631 an...
The Northeast Coast campaign (also known as the Six Terrible Days ) (10 August – 6 October 1703) was the first major campaign of Queen Anne's War in New England. Alexandre Leneuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin led 500 troops made up of French colonial forces and the Wabanaki Confederacy of Acadia (200 Mi'kmaq and others from Norridgewock). They attacked English settlements on the coast of present...
United States Senators from MaineList of United States Senators from Maine (from U.S. Senate web site-no links) of United States Senators from Maine (with wikipedia links)
Early Settlers of Wells, Maine= Bring your ancestor profiles on over. Must be set to public Wells, situated upon the sea-coast, in York County, was first settled by persons from Exeter, N.H., about the year 1640. Its name is supposed to have come from Wells in England. In regard to land titles, Folsom says that an Indian named Thomas Chabinoke, devised all his title and interest to Namps-cas-co...
Sarah Orne Jewett's South Berwick==Please add Geni profiles from writer Sarah Orne Jewett's life and times to this project. Collaborators, feel free to update the project, including images, resource material ... And invite more collaborators. * From the Sarah Orne Jewett Walking Tour brochure by the Jewett Eastman Memorial Committee, trustees of Jewett Eastman House:Novelist, poet and short-sto...
Augusta, Maine: Wikipedia
The Farber Collection is a photographs collection held by the The American Antiquarian Society Photographs of Sculpture on American GravestonesAn unusual but valuable collection at the American Antiquarian Society is that of the photographs of grave markers. Old burial grounds are treasure houses of early American sculpture and of historical and genealogical information. As Harriet Merrifield F...
Gorham was born out of the Narragansett War, one of the 7 townships granted by the General Court of Massachusetts to 840 people who either fought or were descendants of fighters (or closely allied to them) who fought. The Narragansett War is called King Philip's War. Mr. McLellan's book says, "that a proclamation was made to the army in the name of the government, before they began their march ...
Copyright ©2002-207 Hingham Internet Publishing All rights reserved.Revised 6-4-07****MAINE****1794 WATCHTIDE...by the Sea 190 West Main Street - Rt. 1 Searsport, ME stay@watchtide.com Owned by Revolutionary War Hero General Henry Knox from 1794-1798, became an Inn 1917. Purchased by present owners in 1994. Recently submitted to the National Historic Registry.1780 Captain James Winn House Ogunq...
Northern Maine Veterans Cemetery is located in Caribou, Maine. Find a Grave
Maine's Swedish Colony was founded in the 1870s in an effort to settle Northern Maine. Maine officials actively recruited several hundred immigrants from Sweden who came and formed the nucleus of a vibrant Swedish community. The first settlers, having arrived in Maine on July 23 of 1870, consisted of 22 men, 11 women, and 18 children, totaling 51 settlers. They settled lots in New Sweden and Wo...
Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery-Mt. Vernon Rd. is located in Augusta, Maine. Find a Grave