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Schooner on Penobscot Bay (July 2007)

Schooner on Penobscot Bay (July 2007)

1783 Birth date of Cornelius Holland, delegate to the Maine constitutional convention in 1819, member of the Maine House and Senate, and a Jacksonian member of the U.S. Congress
1861 Searsport built vessels Mary E. Thompson and Mary Goodell, and Machias-built Mary Alice are captured by Confederate raiders.
1864 Brunswick-built vessel Greenland is captured by Confederate raiders.
1872 Doughnut cutter patents granted to John Blondel of Thomaston
1917
Selden Conner, Civil War general, and governor from 1876 through 1879, dies in Augusta.
1921
Incorporation of the town of Owl’s Head
1948
Robert P. Tristram Coffin is honored by his alma mater Bowdoin College, as he reads from his poetry and displays his drawings
 
 
 
 

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