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

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

  1606   James I, King of England, signs the first charter giving a company, the Virginia Company, the right to establish colonies on the shores of North America. This begins the process of establishing the Jamestown and Popham colonies.
  1641   Incorporation of the City of Agamenticus, now the Town of York
1837 State Geologist speaks to the Maine Institute of Natural Science, later to become the Maine Audubon Society.
1890 Lewiston Granite Cutters Union is organized
  1907
  Sidney Perham, a U.S. Congressman and Governor (1871-1874), dies in Washington, D C. The Aroostook County of town of Perham is named in his honor.
  1963
  Kittery built U.S.S. Thresher sinks in a diving exercise, 220 miles east of Boston; all 123 aboard were lost.
  1991   Northern Maine’s St. John River Basin endures three days of flooding resulting in $14 million of damages.
     
     
     
     
     




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