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Approximately 40 millions pounds (nearly 90 percent) of the nation's lobster supply is caught off the coast of Maine.
Maine produces 99% of all the blueberries in the country making it the single largest producer of blueberries in the United States.
Maine's earliest inhabitants were descendants of Ice Age hunters.
Mount Katahdin is the state's highest point at 5,268 feet above sea level.
90% of the country's toothpick supply is produced in Maine.
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"Maine is another case where no one is quite sure how the name came about. Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason, who received a charter for land in Maine, were both English Royal Navy veterans, and the name may have originated with the sailors differentiating "the mainland" from the many islands off the state's coast. Maine's state legislature, meanwhile, passed a resolution in 2001 that established Franco-American Day and claimed that the state was named after the French province of Maine." mentalfloss.com
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- 1820 - Maine separated from Massachusetts and became 23rd state; first state to give suffrage, school privileges to all
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm - January 16, 1831 - A great snowstorm raged from Georgia to Maine. Snowfall totals greater than 30 inches were reported from Pennsylvania across southern New England.
WeatherForYou.com - 1839 - Governor Fairfield declared war on England due to boundary dispute between New Brunswick, northern Maine
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm - 1839 - Maine
MAINE
This state was originally granted by James I to the Plymouth Company, in 1606, by whom it was transfered to Mason and Gorges in 1624. This...Read MORE... - 1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled Maine/New Brunswick border dispute
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm - 1844 - Married women in Maine become the first in the US to win the right to “separate economy”.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/aug/11/women-rights-money-timeline-history - 1851 - Maine first state to outlaw sale of alcoholic beverages
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm 
1869 - The Maine Senate, by a vote of 14 to 10, has passed a bill allowing physicians to obtain legitimate subjects for the dissection table.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
March 6, 1869- 1870 - There are 226,000 children in Maine between the ages of four and twenty-one, and only fifty per cent of these attend school.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
February 26, 1870 - 1895 - Maine
Maine, mān, one of the New England states, and the northeasternmost state of the American Union, bounded N. by the Canadian provinces of Quebec and...Read MORE... 
(IL) - Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois
City Building and De Witt House, Lewiston, Maine
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Flag of Maine
Adopted February 23, 1909
Augusta, Kennebec, Maine, USA
High School (1909)
Postcard
Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, USA
Corner Court and Main Street
Postcard- 1931 - Governor Percival Baxter purchased land in northern Maine; land donated for establishment of Baxter State Park
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm - 1934 - State prohibition laws repealed (Maine)
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm - 1947 - Forest fire destroyed over 1,000 homes, leveled seven communities, destroyed 17,000 acres of Acadia National Park
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm - 1961 - September 22 - Hurricane Esther made a near complete circle south of Cape Cod. The hurricane then passed over Cape Cod and hit Maine.
Its energy was largely spent over the North Atlantic Ocean, however, heavy rains over Maine resulted in widespread local flooding of cellars, low...Read MORE...
Old Photos, Pictures, Advertisements and Postcards from Maine, USA
Maine, USA
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City Building and De Witt House, Lewiston, Maine
Maine, USA
(IL) - Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois
Maine, USA
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Augusta, Kennebec, Maine, USA
High School (1909)
Maine, USA
Flag of Maine
Adopted February 23, 1909
Maine, USA
Postcard
Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, USA
Corner Court and Main Street
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1820 - Maine separated from Massachusetts and became 23rd state; first state to give suffrage, school privileges to all
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm
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January 16, 1831 - A great snowstorm raged from Georgia to Maine. Snowfall totals greater than 30 inches were reported from Pennsylvania across southern New England.
WeatherForYou.com
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1839 - Governor Fairfield declared war on England due to boundary dispute between New Brunswick, northern Maine
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm
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1839 - Maine
MAINE
This state was originally granted by James I to the Plymouth Company, in 1606, by whom it was transfered to Mason and Gorges in 1624. This... Read MORE...
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1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled Maine/New Brunswick border dispute
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm
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1844 - Married women in Maine become the first in the US to win the right to “separate economy”.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/aug/11/women-rights-money-timeline-history
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1851 - Maine first state to outlaw sale of alcoholic beverages
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm
1869 - The Maine Senate, by a vote of 14 to 10, has passed a bill allowing physicians to obtain legitimate subjects for the dissection table.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
March 6, 1869
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1870 - There are 226,000 children in Maine between the ages of four and twenty-one, and only fifty per cent of these attend school.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
February 26, 1870
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1895 - Maine
Maine, mān, one of the New England states, and the northeasternmost state of the American Union, bounded N. by the Canadian provinces of Quebec and... Read MORE...
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1931 - Governor Percival Baxter purchased land in northern Maine; land donated for establishment of Baxter State Park
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm
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1934 - State prohibition laws repealed (Maine)
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm
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1947 - Forest fire destroyed over 1,000 homes, leveled seven communities, destroyed 17,000 acres of Acadia National Park
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ metimeln.htm
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1961 - September 22 - Hurricane Esther made a near complete circle south of Cape Cod. The hurricane then passed over Cape Cod and hit Maine.
Its energy was largely spent over the North Atlantic Ocean, however, heavy rains over Maine resulted in widespread local flooding of cellars, low... Read MORE...
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