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Bathers at Old Orchard Beach on Saco Bay (June 2010)

Bathers at Old Orchard Beach on Saco Bay (June 2010)

1683 Incorporation of the town of North Yarmouth
1792
Incorporation of the town of Buckstown, now Bucksport
1863
Maine came under enemy attack as sailors from the Confederate navy sailed up the coast and boarded the Union revenue cutter Caleb Cushing for a raid on Portland harbor.
1955 President Dwight D. Eisenhower visits U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith and delivers a speech at the Skowhegan Fairgrounds. [see presidential visits]
2011
U.S. Supreme Court rules state “clean election” funds cannot be used to match a “clean” candidate’s opponent’s higher election spending, thus crippling the Maine law and reducing the number of candidate’s using public financing instead of taking private contributions.
 
 
 
 

 

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