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Southbound Appalachian Trail Crossing at Moxie Pond (October 2007)

Southbound Appalachian Trail at Moxie Pond (October 2007)

1851 Jonathan G. Hunton of Readfield, Governor of Maine 1830-1831, dies.
1861 Cape Elizabeth-built vessel Grenada is captured by Confederate raiders.
1918 Rumford uses McCarthy Hospital exclusively for influenza cases.  An emergency hospital to care for additional influenza cases is being set up at the parochial building. The town will bear the expenses and be assisted by the Red Cross.  The sisters in the convent are also working in the hospital.
1937
Two members of the bank-robbing Brady Gang were shot and killed by federal agents in Bangor; a third member was captured.
 
 
 

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