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Orono (/ ˈ ɒr ə n oʊ / ORR-ə-noh) is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. Located on the Penobscot and Stillwater rivers, it was first settled by American colonists in 1774. They named it in honor of Chief Joseph Orono , a sachem of the indigenous Penobscot nation who long occupied this territory.
Orono is located at (44.888769, −68.671153 The Orono CDP consists of all of the town east of Interstate 95, including the primary settled area in the town.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.7 square miles (20.0 km 2), of which 7.1 square miles (18.3 km 2) is land and 0.66 square miles (1.7 km 2), or 8.55%, is water.
University of Maine, Orono Peter Ernest Cianchette (born June 25, 1961) [ 3 ] is an American diplomat, businessman, politician and former United States Ambassador to Costa Rica from 2008 to 2009. He was elected to the Maine House of Representatives and served there from 1996 to 2000.
He was a member of Orono’s Chamber of Commerce, a founding member of the Clarington Concert Band, and spent much of his time after retirement helping the development of the Oak Ridges Morraine Trail. Roy C. was honoured by the town with Roy Forrester Day, on June 7, 2009, months after dying on January 25, 2009. [3] Roy C., founding publisher
The Orono Main Street Historic District encompasses a well-preserved collection of predominantly residential 19th century buildings in Orono, Maine.It extends along Main Street's west side between Maplewood Avenue and Goodridge Road, and on the east side between Spencer and Pine Streets.
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The Page Farm & Home Museum is a museum on the campus of the University of Maine in Orono, Maine.Its mission is "to collect, document, preserve, interpret and disseminate knowledge of Maine history relating to farms and farming communities between 1865 and 1940, providing an educational and cultural experience for the public and a resource for researchers of this period."
He served in that post until 1975, when he retired to Maine (first Bangor, and then Kennebunk). He subsequently became president of the Kennebunkport Chamber of Commerce, and a trustee of the University of Maine. The later position often brought him into the newspapers as a lone dissenter or minority vote on board matters.