May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1605 George Weymouth’s expedition lands on Monhegan Island, then explores Maine coast. 1861 Bath-built vessel Milan and Rockland-built Ocean Eagle are captured by…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1725 Birth date in Massachusetts of Ephraim Ballard, early settler and political leader in Hallowell, who was the husband of midwife Martha Ballard.…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1907 Shipwreck of the three-masted schooner Ellen M. Mitchell on the rocks at Jonesport. 1944 Two British Royal Navy planes collide and plunge…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1819 Waldoboro votes to replace its wooden cattle pound with a stronger rock pound 1874 Rufus Goodenow dies in Farmington. A Whig member…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1691 Charter of William and Mary goes into effect, outlining the governance of the Province of Maine and that area between the Kennebec…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1790 Birthdate of Benjamin White, first Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives from “The Democratic Party.” 1835 First publication of the newspaper…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1857 Ten year average of “ice out” on Moosehead Lake is May 12th. (See also April 30th) 1861 Machias-built vessel State of Maine…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1888 The Lewiston Carpenters and Joiner’s Union is organized.
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1775 Second Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia 1801 Birth date of Governor (1844-1847) Hugh Johnston Anderson of Wiscasset and Belfast. 1866 Three Navy…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1775 British ship Margaretta sails into Machias harbor with news of the battles of Lexington and concord. Machias residents plan to capture the…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1868 Birth date of Gail Laughlin, first woman lawyer elected to the Maine State Legislature. 1821 James Phinney Baxter, Portland businessman and father…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1792 First state-sanctioned election on the separation of Maine from Massachusetts. Though separation lost, the vote was close. 1813 Martha Ballard, whose diary…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 May 6th is Nurses Day beginning Nurses Week to May 12th. Maine’s Dorothea Dix during the Civil War served as Superintendent of…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1842 First publication of the newspaper the Brunswicker, published by T. S. Mclellan & Co. 1848 The second documented Maine meteorite falls at…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1908 Clifford G. McIntire, Director of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Natural Resources Department and U.S. Congress member, was born in Perham 1968…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1813 Birth date of Lot M. Morrill, a Republican Governor (1858-1860), he served as U.S. Senator 1861-1869 and U. S, Secretary of the…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1890 Shipwreck of the brig Charles Dennis on Whale Back Rock at the mouth of the Kennebec River, where she drifted after the…
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1724 Two boats from the garrison at the fort on the St. George River are ambushed. Seventeen English killed in attack by Indians…
April 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1772 First white settlers, Joseph Weston and his family of eleven, arrive in what was to become the town of Skowhegan. …
April 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1887 John Goodwin of South Berwick, Republican U.S. Representative from Maine (1861-1863) and first governor of the Arizona Territory, dies. 1901…