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Common Flicker at Marsh River Bog Preserve, Newcastle (April 2009)

Common Flicker, Marsh River Bog Preserve, Newcastle (April 2009)

  1772   First white settlers, Joseph Weston and his family of eleven, arrive in what was to become the town of Skowhegan.
  1830   Davis Tillson, Brevet Major General in the Union Army in the Civil War, born in Rockland.
  1838   Piscataquis County established
  1873   Jim Cullen of Mapleton is lynched in Presque Isle for the murder of a deputy sheriff.
  1888
  Melville G. Fuller is nominated to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President Cleveland. Serving through the Taft administration, he has been the only Maine person to hold that office. He was born in Augusta and died in Sorrento.
  1911
  Bangor’s “Great Fire” raged as fifty-five commercial and residential acres burned in one of Maine’s worst fires.
1979 The St. John River Basin experiences a flood causing $650,000 in damages
2011 Ten year average of “ice out” on Moosehead Lake is April 30th, twelve days earlier than in 1857 (May 12th) due to climate warming.
     
     
     
     
     
     




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