July 22
July 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 1900 The Houlton Aroostook Lodge, Railroad Trainmen Union No. 303 is organized. 1983 Samantha Smith, then eleven years old, returns from a visit…
July 21
July 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 1860 The plantation of Stacyville is legally organized 1970 U.S. Congress member John Lynch, who was born in Portland and served in the…
July 20
July 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 1905 Central Maine Power Company incorporates as a business corporation. 1970 B-52 bomber destroyed by fire at Loring Air Force Base.
July 19
July 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 1779 Forty vessels leave Boston for Penobscot Bay on the ill-fated Penobscot Expedition to remove the British from that region. 1889 Cornelia Crosby,…
July 18
July 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 1853 Opening of Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad, joining Montreal and Portland for the first time with the completion of the…
July 17
July 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 1915 Incorporation of the Town of Tilden (now part of Mariaville) 1939 12 year-old Donn Fendler becomes lost on Mount Katahdin, and…
July 16
July 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 1915 Ellen G. H. White, a co-founder of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, dies 1969 First publication of the newspaper the Coastal Advertiser…
July 15
July 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 1625 Samoset, an Indian sagamore, granted a deed, believed to be the first from an Indian to the colonists, to John Brown for…
July 14
July 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 1658 Incorporation of the towns of Falmouth and Scarborough 1772 Incorporation of the town of Buxton 1848 Incorporation of the town of Milbridge…
July 13
July 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 1877 Birth date of Republican Governor (1929-1933) Carl E. Milliken of Island Falls. 1947 The newly created town of Fox Isle changes it…
July 12
July 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 1817 Birth date of Henry David Thoreau, who traveled to Maine, climbed Mount Katahdin, and wrote of his travels in the state 1872…
July 11
July 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 1713 The “Treaty of Portsmouth” ceding Indian lands to the English “in the eastern country” was signed by eight sagamores. 1899 Birth date…
July 10
July 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 1876 James G. Blaine resigns his seat in Congress and begins service in the U.S. Senate, having been Speaker of the U. S.…
July 9
July 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 1783 Birth date of Cornelius Holland, delegate to the Maine constitutional convention in 1819, member of the Maine House and Senate, and a…
July 8
July 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 1783 Massachusetts Supreme Court declares slavery unconstitutional in the case of Commonwealth v. Jennison, thus applying the ban to Maine. 1863 Milbridge-built vessel…
July 7
July 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 1786 Incorporation of the town of Turner 1814 British attack Maine, occupy Downeast coast beginning at Eastport. 1843 John Holmes, once a Congress…
July 6
July 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 1837 Elijah P. Lovejoy, a Maine-born anti-slavery editor in Illinois, writes an editorial that inflames local citizens who destroy his press. 1853 Jeremiah…
July 5
July 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 Samuel de Champlain arrives in Wiscasset and meets with Native Americans. 1653 Incorporation of the towns of Cape Porpoise (now Kennebunkport), Saco,…
July 4
July 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 1776 American Declaration of Independence issued 1786 Incorporation of the town of Portland 1804 Birth date of Nathaniel Hawthorne, author and resident…
July 3
July 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 1805 Birth date of Shepard Cary, legislator (House 1832, 1833, 1839-1842, 1848, 1849, 1862; Senate 1843, 1850-1853) and member of…