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1802 | Incorporation of the towns of Avon and New Vineyard |
1811 | Incorporation of the town of Eddington |
1812 | Incorporation of the towns of Dearborn (now parts of Belgrade, Smithfield, and Waterville), and of Kingville, now Troy |
1864 | Shipwreck of the steamer Bohemian in thick fog near Cape Elizabeth after striking Alden’s rock. Forty-two lives were lost. |
1865 | Early “right-to-know” law requires towns to report finances to voters before each town meeting. |
1876 | Incorporation of the town of Waite |
1881 | Incorporation of the town of Howard, now Willimantic |
1888 | Birth date of Republican Governor (1925-1929) and U.S. Senator Ralph Owen Brewster (1941-1952), believed to have had ties to the Ku Klux Klan in Maine. |
1892 | Birth date in Rockland of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. A graduate of Vassar, her poem Renascence was first read in Camden at the Whitehall Inn. |