1605 | Samuel de Champlain arrives in Wiscasset and meets with Native Americans. |
1653 |
Incorporation of the towns of Cape Porpoise (now Kennebunkport), Saco, and Wells. | ||
1861 | Falmouth-built vessel Ben Dunning is captured by Confederate raiders. |
1942 | Richard Francis Lavigne, USAF, dies in a Japanese prison on the island of Luzon during WWII after surviving the Bataan death march. Lavigne was from Piscataquis County where a memorial is placed in Big Moose Township. | ||