https://maineanencyclopedia.com/january-6/ January 6 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 1854 Early American novelist Sally Sayward Barrell (Madame Wood) of Portland dies. She developed her own style using American…
January 7 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 Hannibal Hamlin resigns his U.S. Senate seat to become Governor of Maine, serving only two months before resuming his Senate…
January 8 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 1770 As a result of rains the day before, the “Great Freshet of 1770” caused substantial flooding along the lower…
January 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 1880 Shipwreck of the two masted schooner Mateira off Green Point, a mile west of Quoddy Head. The crew of five was saved.…
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 1881 First international telephone conversation, Calais to St Stephen, New Brunswick. 1896 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which she wrote…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 1838 Maine Congress member Jonathan Cilley is killed in a duel near Washington, D.C. by Congress member William Graves from Kentucky 1863 Joshua…
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 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 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 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 1861 Freeport-built vessel Blen is captured by Confederate raiders. 1870 The first Swedish Colonists descend from their wagon train in New Sweden at…