March 28
March 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 Maple Sunday is the 4th Sunday in March. 1893 Ballot law of 1891 is amended to create the “Big Box” format, making it…
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March 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 Maple Sunday is the 4th Sunday in March. 1893 Ballot law of 1891 is amended to create the “Big Box” format, making it…
March 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 Maple Sunday is the 4th Sunday in March. 1819 Birth date in Woodstock of Sidney Perham, a U.S. Congressman and Governor…
March 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 Maple Sunday is the 4th Sunday in March. 1846 Floods ravage Livermore Fall on the Androscoggin, Hallowell on the Kennebec, and Bangor on…
March 25 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 Maple Sunday is the 4th Sunday in March. 1636 Incorporation of the town of Agamenticus, now the town of York…
March 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 Maple Sunday is the 4th Sunday in March. 1909 Incorporation of the town of Portage Lake. 1914 Adoption at Bangor of the Progressive…
March 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 Maple Sunday is the 4th Sunday in March. 1831 Birth date of James Phinney Baxter in Gorham, historian and father of Governor Percival…
March 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 Maple Sunday is the 4th Sunday in March. 1794 Birth date of John Hubbard of Hallowell, physician and Governor of Maine 1850-1853, known…
March 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 1636 First court authorized in Maine sits at Saco 1788 Incorporation of the towns of Bowdoin and Orrington 1838 …
March 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 1777 Incorporation of the town of Thomaston 1804 Birth date in Portland of Neal Dow, alcohol prohibitionist and Prohibition Party candidate for President…
March 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 1835 Incorporation of the town of Otis 1836 Incorporation of the towns of Amity and Linneus 1839 Incorporation of the town of Argyle…
March 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 1803 Birth date of Governor Abner Coburn in what is now Skowhegan. A founder of the Maine Republican Party, he served…
March 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 Birth date of Benjamin White, Jr., who became the first Democratic Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, in which…
March 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 1793 Incorporation of the town of Buckfield 1830 Incorporation of the town of Cranberry Isles 1840 Incorporation of the town of Old Town…
March 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 1820 Maine Statehood becomes Official; annual Statehood Day proclaimed by the Governor to “observe the day in schools and other suitable places with…
March 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 1773 Birth date of U.S. Senator (1820-1827) John Holmes. 1781 Birth date of Jonathan G. Hunton of Readfield, Governor of Maine 1830. 1925…
March 13 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 1677 Massachusetts bought Maine for £1,250 sterling ($6,000), extending its territory eastward. Maine became a state 143 years later in…
March 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 1788 Birth date in New Hampshire of Governor (1831-1834) and judge Samuel E. Smith of Wiscasset, a Democrat. 1806 …
March 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 1778 Incorporation of the town of Coxhall, now Lyman 1791 Incorporation of the town of Readfield 1858 …
March 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 The Hurricane Island Granite Cutters Union is organized. Portland Branch, Granite Cutters Union is organized. St. George, Clark Island, Granite…
March 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 1774 Incorporation of the towns of Edgecomb and New Gloucester 1785 Incorporation of the town of Parsonsfield 1797 Incorporation of the town of…