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Common Flicker, Marsh River Bog Preserve, Newcastle (April 2009)
| 1772 | First white settlers, Joseph Weston and his family of eleven, arrive in what was to become the town of Skowhegan. |
| 1830 | Davis Tillson, Brevet Major General in the Union Army in the Civil War, born in Rockland. | ||
| 1838 | Piscataquis County established |
| 1873 | Jim Cullen of Mapleton is lynched in Presque Isle for the murder of a deputy sheriff. |
| 1888 |
Melville G. Fuller is nominated to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President Cleveland. Serving through the Taft administration, he has been the only Maine person to hold that office. He was born in Augusta and died in Sorrento. |
| 1911 |
Bangor’s “Great Fire” raged as fifty-five commercial and residential acres burned in one of Maine’s worst fires. | ||
| 1979 | The St. John River Basin experiences a flood causing $650,000 in damages | ||
| 2011 | Ten year average of “ice out” on Moosehead Lake is April 30th, twelve days earlier than in 1857 (May 12th) due to climate warming. |