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Southbound Appalachian Trail at Moxie Pond (October 2007)
| 1691 | New royal charter for Massachusetts, now includes Maine | ||
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase treaty ratified by Congress | ||
| 1861 | Wells-built vessel Betsy Ames is captured by Confederate raiders. |
| 1918 | Dr. Bristol, State Health Commissioner, asked on Wednesday that $25,000 be appropriated from the emergency war fund, the state epidemic fund practically having been exhausted, and that the governor appoint a committee, representing the state health department, the U.S. Public Health Service, the Red Cross, and the Maine Committee on Public Safety to have control of the situation and fight the epidemic. Governor Milliken agreed. | ||
| 1947 |
Mrs. Gilbert reports smoke rising from a cranberry bog between her home and the dump on Mount Desert Island. No one knows what started the fire that eventually ravaged Acadia National Park and the surrounding area. |