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Attempts to uncover the history of the name of Maine began with James Sullivan's 1795 "History of the District of Maine." He made the unsubstantiated claim that the Province of Maine was a compliment to the queen of Charles I , Henrietta Maria , who once "owned" the Province of Maine in France.
The Province of Maine refers to any of the various English colonies established in the 17th century along the northeast coast of North America, within portions of the present-day U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick.
Maine (/ m eɪ n / ⓘ MAYN) [10] is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeastern most state in the Lower 48.It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, and shares a maritime border with Nova Scotia.
The District of Maine was the governmental designation for what is now the U.S. state of Maine from October 25, 1780 to March 15, 1820, when it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state. The district was a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and before American independence had been part of the British province of Massachusetts Bay .
The History of Portland, Maine, begins when Native Americans originally called the Portland peninsula Məkíhkanək meaning "At the fish hook" in Penobscot [1] [2] and Machigonne (meaning "Great Neck") [3] in Algonquian. The peninsula and surrounding areas were home to members of the Algonquian-speaking Aucocisco branch of the Eastern Abenaki ...
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History of Thomaston, Maine (1886) [5] A Brief History of Maine (1888) Gazetteer of Massachusetts (1890) [6] The Story of Patriot's Day, Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775 (1895) The Story of Jonah (1897) His 1881 work, Gazetteer of the State of Maine, was published by B. B. Russell in Cornhill, Boston. [3]
Brownville is a town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,139 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The town includes the villages of Brownville, Knight's Landing and Brownville Junction , near which passes the 100-Mile Wilderness of the Appalachian Trail .