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Farm Stand in Westfield on U.S. Route 1 (September 2001)

Farm Stand in Westfield on U.S. Route 1 (September 2001)

1775 Benedict Arnold expedition to Quebec enters the Kennebec River and reaches Swan Island.
1868
University of Maine opens with twelve students and two faculty members.
1903 Augusta Federal Labor Union organized for workers not eligible to join another union
 1918 10 nurses from Central Maine General Hospital in Lewiston left for Camp Devens on the train. 6,000 cases of Spanish influenza are reported in the camp. Auburn boy in the camp writes that the disease has spread through the entire camp.
1938
New England hurricane causes $135,000 in damage in Maine.
1947
Birth date in Portland of Bangor horror novelist Stephen King.
 

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