1831 | Nathaniel Parker Willis, a very popular poet and journalist in the mid-nineteenth century, delivers one of his poems at a Brown University commencement |
1858 | Merrill is organized as a plantation for election purposes, later incorporated as a town in 1911 |
1858 | Dyer Brook is organized as a plantation for election purposes, later incorporated as a town in 1891 |
1877 | Birth date of Donald F. Snow, a graduate of the University of Maine at Orono law school in 1904, city solicitor for Bangor, prosecutor for Penobscot County, and member of the U.S. Congress |
1886 | Shipwreck of the brig Dart of Halifax near the Crumple Island Life Saving Station. The Passengers and crew were rescued. |