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2. Madawaska, Maine - Wikipedia

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   23-42520. GNIS feature ID. 0582576. Website. www.townofmadawaska.com. Madawaska is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,867 at the 2020 census. [2] Madawaska is opposite Edmundston, Madawaska County in New Brunswick, Canada, to which it is connected by the Edmundston–Madawaska Bridge over the Saint John River.

3. Acadian Landing Site - Wikipedia

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   September 20, 1973. The Acadian Landing Site, also known as the Acadian Cross Historic Shrine, is a site historically significant to the French-American Acadian population of far northern Maine. Located on the southern bank of the Saint John River east of Madawaska and marked by a large marble cross, it is the site traditionally recorded as the ...

4. Isaie and Scholastique Martin House - Wikipedia

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   Isaie and Scholastique Martin House. /  47.354806°N 68.337917°W  / 47.354806; -68.337917. The Isaie and Scholastique Martin House at 137 Saint Catherine Street in Madawaska, Maine, is a well-preserved example of an Acadian log house built following traditional regional techniques. The house was listed on the National Register of ...

5. Fort Pentagouet - Wikipedia

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   Fort Pentagouët (Fort Pentagoet, Fort Castine, Fort Penobscot, Fort Saint-Pierre) was a French fort established in present-day Castine, Maine, which was the capital of Acadia (1670–1674). [1] It is the oldest permanent settlement in New England. Its commanding position at the mouth of the Penobscot River estuary, a lucrative source of furs ...

6. Acadians - Wikipedia

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   The Acadians (French: Acadiens; European French: [akadjɛ̃], Acadian French: [akad͡zjɛ̃]) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, most descendants of Acadians live in the Northern American region of Acadia, where descendants of Acadians who ...

7. Military history of the Acadians - Wikipedia

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   During Queen Anne's War, the members of the Wabanaki Confederacy from Acadia raided Protestant settlements along the Acadia/ New England border in present-day Maine in the Northeast Coast campaign (1703). Mi’kmaq and Acadians resisted the New England retaliatory Raid on Grand Pré, Piziquid and Chignecto in 1704. The raid was led by Benjamin ...

8. History of the Acadians - Wikipedia

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   Modern flag of Acadia, adopted 1884. The Acadians (French: Acadiens) are the descendants of 17th and 18th century French settlers in parts of Acadia (French: Acadie) in the northeastern region of North America comprising what is now the Canadian Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, the Gaspé peninsula in eastern Québec, and the Kennebec River in southern ...

9. Maine Acadian Culture - Wikipedia

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   Maine Acadian Culture. Coordinates: 47.353327°N 68.273302°W. Maine Acadian Culture is an affiliated area of the United States national park system, which ties together a variety of sites on the U.S. side of the Saint John River Valley on the Maine – New Brunswick border. The common history of Acadians on both sides of the river is best ...