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The Selectmen's Building, c. 1780, in Somesville, Mount Desert Island (November, 2001)

The Selectmen’s Building, c. 1780, in Somesville, Mount Desert Island (November, 2001)

1827 Birth date in Gorham of Ellen White, who guided the growth of the Seventh Day Adventist movement.
1861 Hampden-built vessel Arcade is captured by Confederate raiders.
1898
First day of the two-day Portland Gale, a hurricane and blizzard that raged for over thirty-six hours sinking about one hundred vessels including the steamer Portland “somewhere off Cape Cod.” The shipwreck took 192 lives and, according to a 2002 report of the discovery of the wreck, it sank between Cap Cod and Cape Ann.

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