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Fairmount Cemetery is an historic cemetery in Presque Isle, Aroostook County, Maine. It is the largest cemetery in northern Maine, with over 30 acres of dedicated land. It overlooks the University of Maine at Presque Isle campus in the south of the city. More than 6,000 people are interred in the cemetery, including over 700 veterans.
The Ernest Hemingway Cottage is a single-story frame structure with a gabled roof and white clapboard siding [6] measuring 20 feet by 40 feet. [5] The main section of the cottage contains the sleeping and living rooms, along with a bathroom and utility closet.
Joseph Root (1860 – 29 October 1912) was a well-known hermit who lived in what is now Presque Isle State Park in Pennsylvania. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, [1] [2] [better source needed] Root lived on Presque Isle without any modern conveniences. [3] He has sometimes been nicknamed "the King of the Peninsula" [2] or "the King of Presque Isle". [4]
Presque Isle is a small unincorporated community located within Presque Isle Township along Lake Huron. It is approximately 15 miles north of Alpena , and 15 miles south of Rogers City . The community and the township are named for Presque Isle (literally, "almost an island") which is French for " peninsula ".
Ocqueoc Township (/ ˈ ɑː k iː ɑː k / AH-key-ock) is a civil township of Presque Isle County in the U.S. state of Michigan named after the Ocqueoc River. The population of Ocqueoc Township was 544 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] down from 655 at the 2010 census .
Newspaper headlines, "Str Bradley Sinks with 35 Aboard" and "33 Lost, 2 Saved" Presque Isle County Advance and Alpena News, respectively. Newspaper headlines, "33 Missing as Freighter Sinks in Lake Michigan" Bay City Times and erroneous headline from Detroit Times. Pictorial history of the Carl D. Bradley.
Gerald Evan Williams was born in Bridgewater, Maine to Myron Luther Williams and Lottie Belle "Belle" (Barrett) Williams. [7] His father's family had lived in Bradford, Maine since before the Civil War, [8] but in his teens Myron moved to the rural potato-growing area of Bridgewater, where he lived with his sister's family, before his marriage. [9]