Presidents of the United States visit many states during their tenures. Maine is no exception. Sometime in 1789 George Washington visited Kittery on a fishing trip. In 1841, recently elected President William Henry Harrison visited Bath and the Clark and Sewall shipyard, where he witnessed the launch of the Rappahannock, at the time the largest…
The Spencer Lake camp was built to accommodate 250 prisoners, though it later had to handle 310 men. Schoolchildren from Forest Hills School 8th Grade Class of 2007 for their service learning project in nearby Jackman have placed a plaque marking the spot near an apparent cooking structure. (See photo above.) Maine’s forest and potato…
I Caleb Gordon, aged Sixty three years, a citizen of the United States, born in Brentwood in the State of New Hampshire on oath testify & declare (being now resident in Augusta in the District of Maine) that in April 1775 I enlisted as a private soldier for the Continental Service into what was called…
I, James Boaz of Portland in the County of Cumberland, on oath declare and say that I was born in Plymouth in Massachusetts which was my place of residence when I enlisted at Cambridge in the year 1780 or thereabouts and joined Capt Abraham Watson’s Company which belonged to Col Graton’s Regiment and Gen1 Glover’s…
I Jonathan Knox of Berwick in the County of York, and State of Maine, aged Eighty years, do upon Oath declare, in order to obtain the benefit of a Resolve of the Legislature of Maine passed March 17 1835, entitled a “Resolve in favor of certain Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary War, and the…
Dubros Times Selected Depositions of Maine Revolutionary War Veterans This is the Introduction to the publication named above and edited by Sylvia J. Sherman of the Maine State Archives. It provides a context for the depositions selected here. More are available in the publication itself, and still more in the holdings of the Maine State…
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 leaves Bangor heading north to Mount Katahdin. 1857 Maine State Seminary, now Bates College, opens. 1906 The schooner Annie L.…
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 1805 Birth date of Governor William G. Crosby of Belfast elected in 1852 by the legislature though he received fewer popular votes than his…
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 moves out from Cambridge, Massachusetts on its way through Maine to Quebec. 1902 Lewiston Typographical Union is organized 1954 Hurricane…
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 1843 Birth date of Republican Governor (1880-1881) Daniel F. Davis of Corinth, selected by the Legislature in a controversial decision. 1910 Washington State Normal…
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 1852 Birth date of U.S. Senator (1911-1913) Obadiah Gardner 1853 Henry David Thoreau leaves Boston on his trip to Chesuncook. 1880 Voters approve amendment…
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 1852 Birth date in Buckfield of Seba Smith, considered the father of Downeast humor writing, whose Portland Courier was Maine’s first daily newspaper. 1918 …
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 1853 Henry David Thoreau reaches Greenville and Moosehead Lake on his journey to Chesuncook. 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane, a category 2, hits Maine. 2000…
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 1889 First publication of the newspaper the Philatelic Era in Portland published by Pickard & Eustis. 1903 Fourteen men lose their lives near Pemaquid…
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 1892 Samuel Mayall, member of the Maine House of Representatives, the Maine Senate, member of Congress and a Civil War veteran, dies 1964 Emma…
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 1762 Incorporation of the town of Bowdoinham 1805 Birth date of John Stevens Cabot Abbott of Brunswick, a historian and author of many books…
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 sails from Newburyport, on its way through Maine to Quebec. 1887 Isaac Reed, member of the Maine House of Representatives,…
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 1802 Dedication of Massachusetts Hall, the first building erected on the Bowdoin College campus. 1816 Voters support statehood for Maine 12,007 to 10,382, but…
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 “The Governor annually shall issue a proclamation designating the 3rd Friday in September as Prisoner of War – Missing in Action Recognition Day 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 1775 Benedict Arnold expedition to Quebec enters the Kennebec River and reaches Swan Island. 1868 University of Maine opens with twelve students and two…