September 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 1775 Benedict Arnold expedition reaches Skowhegan and makes camp. 1872 Ephraim K. Smart, a member of the Maine House of Representatives, the Maine Senate,…
September 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 1783 Treaty of Paris confirms American independence, sets Maine’s boundaries, though they remain uncertain until the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842. 1849 Birth date in…
September 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 1816 The Brunswick Statehood Convention convenes, only to dissolve in confusion in two months later. 1918 In Livermore Falls the Androscoggin County Fair is…
September 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 1877 First publication of the newspaper the Eastern Star in Biddeford by W. Lester Watson. 1969 B-52 bomber crashes and burns near Butterfield Lake…
September 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 1774 First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia 1813 Capture of the British brig Boxer by the American brig Enterprise off Portland during the War…
September 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 1831 Nathaniel Parker Willis, a very popular poet and journalist in the mid-nineteenth century, delivers one of his poems at a Brown University commencement…
September 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 1846 Henry David Thoreau first climbs Mount Katahdin, then climbs again the next day reaching the summit. 1853 First publication of the newspaper the…
September 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 1828 Birth date in Brewer of Joshua L. Chamberlain, Civil War General, Governor (1867-1871), and President of Bowdoin College. 1869 A violent gale drives…
September 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 1849 Birth date of Maine author Sarah Orne Jewett in South Berwick 1875 Harris M. Plaisted, who also served as Maine Governor and Attorney…